Quotes About Feminism

I don't think there's anything wrong with feminist uplift. That's how we got credit cards in our own name.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.

I have always thought of myself as someone for equal rights. I don't mind being called a feminist, and I get really upset when female celebrities resist the title as if it's a bad thing, because it's a very good thing.

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

As a woman to be competitive is to be passive.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.