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I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.

From Romola Garai

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

From Romola Garai

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

From Romola Garai

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

From Romola Garai

There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

From Romola Garai

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

From Romola Garai

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

From Romola Garai

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

From Romola Garai

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

From Romola Garai

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

From Romola Garai

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