Quotes About Feminism

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

I can't think of anything better than being considered a poster girl for intelligent women.

I want to show girl power.

Femininity can be a powerful thing.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.

Sexism is real in this country.

Being a woman is really crap.

Just because we're a girl band doesn't mean that we're not credible artists.

I never cross my legs.

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works in cycles.

The power lunch is no longer just for men. We all deserve a seat at the table.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we're equal. You don't have to take care of me.

Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.