Quotes About Feminism

It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine "gendercide" in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

The global statistics on the abuse of girls are numbing. It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine "gendercide" in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In

We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.

I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system that I like to say I was traumatized into feminism.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

There's always been extreme misogyny in the music industry.

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson.

I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted.

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.

I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I could find on how not to become my mother.