Quotes About Feminism

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.

Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.

Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry.

It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should be and, increasingly, I am struck by how the next generation is challenging conceptions of what it means to be successful at work.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this rising action, this powerful conflict, and this falling action. And I think a female hero story is not that. It's something else.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen to the rhythms within ourselves and take the normal words we used every day in our normal thoughts, which girls hadn't written about before.

Because there are almost no men in 'Monstress,' we're focused completely on women. It's removed from traditional structures.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

For all the interviews Pelosi does, she doesn't talk often about her struggles and challenges as a woman.

I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.

There are less opportunities for women.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.