Quotes About Feminism

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

I definitely see myself as as much a feminist as I can try to be. I know I'm not perfect, but I definitely feel the connection with women. I feel them.

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right?

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism that has made forty-two-year-old women so desirable.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

Men are objects to me.

I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

Women should be looked at as much more than objects of glamour. We have a lot more to offer.

Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.

'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

Yes, there are obstacles as a woman; there is no doubt about it.

There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.

What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.