She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.
KATE WINSLETI look like people that walk down the street. I don’t have perfect boobs, I don’t have zero cellulite – of course I don’t – and I’m curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that’s great.
More Kate Winslet Quotes
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.
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When you’re telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.
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I suffered from ‘No one will ever fancy me!’ syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that.
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I’ve never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they’re on-screen. That doesn’t make sense to me.
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I wouldn’t dream of working on something that didn’t make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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You’re supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!
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I’m often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don’t think I’ve actually cried watching myself.
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As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.
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I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.
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I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.
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Femininity for me means happiness and freedom, freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
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I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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One of the reasons I’ve never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there’s anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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