Quotes About Feminism

Women are coming into their own and breaking down so many boundaries.

First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?

I feel like it's my responsibility not to lose weight, to be honest. I'm a bright, successful woman who isn't stick-thin.

I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.

I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.

I want barriers to be broken down for women.

Women will always control the experience on Bumble.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

First-ever woman to have an iron-man match. It's been such a long time, to be the second woman ever to main event a Raw.

One of the big conversations I'm trying to have onstage right now is that to be pro-woman, you don't have to be anti-man. Saying all men suck makes you look like an idiot. And it's not helpful.

'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

Just because you are a woman doesn't mean you have to suffer more. We have to get that idea out of our heads.

Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating.

When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'

Over the years, I've consciously not done films that in any way suggest that women are subservient to men.

The ladette thing, it's all a bit weird. I never really liked the word as it suggested we wanted to be men. We didn't.

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.