"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself"
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The quote’s cleverness is how it tries to reframe conformity as empowerment. “No one’s more feminist than me” is an inoculation against critique, a preemptive strike that suggests the only feminisms worth having are compatible with being “attractive aesthetically to others.” She even offers the compromise: you can be “smart, bright” and still photogenic. That “still” is the tell. It treats beauty as the baseline requirement, intellect as an added feature.
Context matters: Zeta-Jones built a star persona on classic, high-gloss femininity at a time when “not caring” was becoming its own kind of cool. Her argument is basically, Don’t confuse rejection of beauty norms with liberation. The subtext, though, is more anxious: if feminism decouples female worth from male-facing desirability, what happens to the women whose power has been routed through being looked at?
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| Topic | Self-Love |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Zeta-Jones, Catherine. (2026, January 17). I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-women-who-look-like-women-i-hated-grunge-46319/
Chicago Style
Zeta-Jones, Catherine. "I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-women-who-look-like-women-i-hated-grunge-46319/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-women-who-look-like-women-i-hated-grunge-46319/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
