Quotes About Progress

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.

I think as females, we always want to have more air time, more room time, more - longer matches and more main events. But, at the end of the day, we're going in that direction, and I'm happy with that, and I'm happy with the side everyone has taken in women's wrestling.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

Feminism for me is the freedom to choose, to live the way a woman wants to and to make this world a better place.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.

Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.

I am most certainly a feminist.

I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.