Dame Helen Mirren warns there is still a 'desire to repress women'
Hollywood icon Dame Helen Mirren has warned women about the constant "desire to repress" them in society.
Dame Helen Mirren warns there is still a "desire to repress women".
The 79-year-old British actress has revealed her "fear" for women in the United States, especially after the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade in 2022, overturned in 2022, which left millions in the US without the constitutional right to abortion.
She told WWD: “My great fear is that with the overturning of Roe vs. Wade and what’s happening in America in general, you realise that lurking in the back is always this need, this desire to repress women.
“You think of the way women were treated under Stalin, under Hitler. It was ‘get back there, have babies, and shut up. Be pretty, be sexy, have babies, and then shut up about everything else'.
“I keep thinking it can’t take over, because women have come so far."
The Hollywood veteran isn't fazed by aging, but she wishes she would "live longer" to experience the full impact of change she waited decades for.
She explained: “The one reason I do wish I was younger is I would like to live longer to see, because I’ve waited 50 years for the changes to happen that I thought should happen when I was 16 or 17 years old.”
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