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"Both This Film Is about Rape and No Life for a Woman are very sophisticated from a feminist perspective, and both appear deceptively simple as films. In each case the film moves from a composite picture of women's oppression and alienation, through individual expressions of awareness, to analysis of the situation and how it can be changed by collective action on the part of conscious individuals—without the assumption that the system is either innocent or irresistible."
-- Barbara Halpern Martineau


Source:
Martineau, Barbara Halpern. "Leading ladies behind the camera: Canadian women filmmakers." Cinema Canada, January-February 1981. (p. 27)