Quotes About Feminism

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.

I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe that American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on the face of the earth, can do anything they make up their minds to do.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

I don't think women are dumb.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

The message I want to send out is that women are sexy.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.