Quotes About Feminism

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

I'm not interested in being the damsel in distress; I want someone who has her own storyline and her own mission - not a woman who, to use a comedy term, is just there to provide the feed line to someone else's joke.

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

When I think about the shows that we have on our air, we've been known for a long time for shows that feature strong, dynamic, powerful women at their forefront. And we're going to continue with that kind of storytelling.

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

Sean Etchingham said of them, 'the women in the Dail will show they are the best men in it'.

Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance, close to fainting.

No tiene ningún sentido que a las niñas se les diga que son más frágiles

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition

points the way toward thinking about how "gender and class intertwine in capitalist production."7

severing the integrated relationship between class and gender. Contributors to Mojab's volume show how decoupling feminism from capitalism carries the twin perils of emptying out the revolutionary content of feminism which "reduces gender to questions of culture" and of "reduc[ing] gender to class relations."8

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!

Every time I've been offered a new job, I've automatically said, 'Oh, I don't think you want me for that job.' It's sort of a weird female - or, at least, it is in me - a weird female defense, when, in fact, what you want to do is scream, 'Hooray, I want to do this!'

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.

I had an affair with an older woman when I was at college, and she was a strong feminist, which shaped my view of women. I learned that they could call the shots, which was fine with me.

I think younger women need older women to get where they need to be. I think women turn out the best work in the world.

That conversation about 'roles for women,' generally - 'roles for older women.' It's like, let's please not dig into that one any more, you know?

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

One day I look forward to making dinner for my husband and children. I don't want to be a career feminist.