The next time you're in need of some rousing sisterhood chat, look no further than Salma Hayek.

The 48-year-old actress - whom Harvey Weinstein once admiringly referred to as "a ball-breaker" - has been talking about her love of women in a new interview in the Guardian this week.

"I am a feminist because I love women and I am ready to fight for women," says Hayek, who has an eight-year-old daughter, Valentina, with her billionaire husband François-Henri Pinault.

"I am a feminist because I am proud to be a woman, and I am passionate about making the world a better place for women. I am a feminist because a lot of amazing women have made me the woman I am today. I am inspired by women every day, as friends and as colleagues.

"The amount of pressure on women now, it’s crazy. You have to be much better than your male colleagues, just so you can maybe try and get the same salary as them. And you still have to be a good wife and mother. And now you also have to be skinny, and you have to look 20 when you’re 40. It’s too much. We need to stop with the crazy expectations, give ourselves a break."

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