Quotes About Feminism

Feminism is so subjective. Because of the generational divide, and because we're living in a completely different world than someone in Africa or even Scotland.

I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do that. It's really hard for, I guess, every woman to not internalize misogyny. I just learned as I went on how to best capture my subjects without objectifying them.

I think what's happening is that women are allowed to be funnier as we stop pretending that there are subjects that they shouldn't address.

Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

I don't see myself playing the docile, submissive bahu on television!

I don't want to have to kneel down to my husband, I don't want to be submissive.

'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.

We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

People want women to be so submissive when we got a voice of our own, and we can do everything these dudes can do.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

I don't subscribe to the idea of a first and second heroine. I go by if a role is strong.

I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

The industry confines us in boxes, but we have to prove that we are women of substance.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.

Whether I'm in a sari or a mini skirt hardly matters as long as the role I do in a film is substantial and makes a difference.

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

sound and fury of these "my culture is better than your culture" conflicts between male-dominated colonial governments and male-dominated Third-World nationalist movements often served to obscure the fact that women were clearly second-class citizens in all these cultural contexts.