If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the pressure girls face to conform to male-defined standards of femininity.
Ellen Page highlights the struggle that girls encounter when they do not fit into the narrow and often unrealistic expectations set by society, particularly those shaped by male perspectives. This results in a sense of confusion or loss, as these imposed ideals can overshadow individual identities and self-worth.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about women's rights and the importance of self-identity in feminist movements.
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other's beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences - that's not hard - it's really an easier and better way to live.
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend's hand.
You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.
What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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