Quotes About Feminism

I want to bring light to my music, to women all over the world. I want to illuminate them with power and a voice, to feel special.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting - all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women's voices, minds, and bodies.

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.

The women like us because we're the first real women rappers, and the men like us because we're strong. We're not some soft little rappers with soft little voices. The men who see us end up going, 'Hey! They're kickin' it!'

Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.

In general, we as women, but also Latinas, we're always kind of serving other characters.

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

Sexism is real.

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

The world is still sexist.

I would never do a sexist script.

I'm not a sexist.