Deborah Kampmeier Quotes

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.