1. Ten best feminist films
Katherine Watson, Mona Lisa Smile
Best line: "You stand in class and tell us to look beyond the image, but you
don’t. To you a housewife is someone who sold her soul for a center hall
colonial. She has no depth, no intellect, no interests. You’re the one who said I
could do anything I wanted. This is what I want."
Thelma & Louise
Best line: "You shoot off a guy’s head with his pants down, believe me, Texas
ain’t the place you want to get caught."
Doralee Rhodes, Nine to Five
Best Line: "Look, I’ve got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I’ve been
forgivin’ and forgettin’ because of the way I was brought up, but I’ll tell you one
thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent
proposal, I’m gonna get that gun of mine, and I’m gonna change you from a
rooster to a hen with one shot! And don’t think I can’t do it."
Alice, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Best line: "Turn around, why? Look at my face, I don’t sing with my –"
Mildred Pierce
Best Line: Get out before I throw all your things out into the street and you with
them. Get out before I kill you.
Princess Merida, Brave
Best Line: "I am Merida, and I will be shooting for my own hand."
Beatrix Kiddo or "The Bride", Kill Bill
Best Line: "Before that strip turned blue...I was your woman. I was a killer who
killed for you... But once that strip turned blue, I could no longer do these things
anymore... I chose her."
Jane, It’s Complicated
Best Line: "I like a lot of semen, always have."
Maya, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Line: "I’m going to smoke everyone involved in this op, and then I’m going
to kill bin Laden."
Amelie
Best Line: "I am nobody’s little weasel."
2. The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
2 A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
3 The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
4 The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
5 The Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler
6 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7 Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
8 The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
9 The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
10 The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
