Passion Gender/Women and Femininity Quotes

If you were to ask us, we'd say Grace felt a little stifled by the expectations society placed on her simply because she was a female, and it sounds like she saw the same thing happening to ol' Liz Taylor in this movie—albeit with little resistance from Taylor's character. Do movies (especially romantic comedies) still present the kind of female character that Grace professes to hate? Why might that be the case? 

What are girls "supposed to be like"—at least according to movies like Father of the Bride? We wonder what Grace would think of some of the movies we see today—would they still inspire the same kind of rage? Or have her passions been pushed behind the washtub with age? Also, we never see her outwardly express this inner rage she feels. Why might this be the case? 

It's interesting that Grace rails against this idea, yet she once had a fantasy in which a handsome Prince Charming figure comes into her life and falls in love with her. Maybe those stories are impossible to ignore.