Quotes About Feminism

As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to the gender binary. I thought I had to be a proud woman to be a feminist. Then I came to the realization that I can be proud of women without necessarily identifying as one.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

There's no actual title. Except sometimes 'wife of the prime minister,' which, you know, we could be a little more progressive.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a general sense of togetherness are really important to me.

Essentially, we live in a patriarchy where women are being distracted from realizing their full potential by the amount of time they spend waiting in toilet queues.

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.

A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

Withholding education from women was the original sin of man," she concludes.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

Whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. She is clothed by her Maker with the same rights, the same duties

They go out into the world expecting adventure, and the patriarchy eats them.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

You drive well for a woman." "That is so patronising. If I'd known you were going to say something like that I would have wrapped your precious Ferrari round a lamppost.

Women do cook for themselves you know. You think when we're on our own we sob into a lonely bowl of cereal? This may come as a surprise, but cooking isn't something we only do when there is a man around.

If more women knew more jokes, there would be more justice in the world.

Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her