Quotes About Feminism

For men, evil is an act one can undo. But for women, evil is in their very being.

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

And I just keep going day after day, year after year. Waiting for the patriarchy to die, and through my work, killing it.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

Yet somehow living as a 1912 woman or as an 1860 woman involved being on Facebook a lot.

The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.

It's important that we're properly represented and for viewers to see all the bits and pieces of being a woman of color.

I'm sure the hard-core feminist will say we're trapped, but I think viewers see how empowered we are.

If you look at the 1960s, Hemingway was viewed on the basis of the myth of his lifestyles rather than viewing his work. Machismo was badly viewed; feminism was becoming a more noble cause. I think the feminists took him apart and assumed he mistreated women.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

I would have loved to do a film like 'Piku' or 'Neerja.' But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.

I'll always identify with the image of a strong woman. I believe that in what I do and in my sense of self, there's a vindication of women. There's power.

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.

When I started watching comedy there was a lot of negativity about women; a lot of comics were spewing out aggressive, violent and negative material.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'

I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.

In Virginia, we will continue to lift up all who identify as women as we strive for a more equitable future.