Quotes About Feminism

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

The world will be changed by western women.

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around