Quotes About Feminism

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist literature had its fan base then, but TV has given it an enormous reach.

Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.

It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.'

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a very special story.

'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.

I believe there are talented female rappers out there that aren't one-dimensional. It's OK to be one-dimensional, by the way.

Nicki Minaj is definitely somebody that we love. She is such a powerful, strong woman, and she's so talented.

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.

The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.

Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife.

I think we've been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women's lib was talked about a lot in the 70s and I certainly always felt that, you know, as a woman, I could do whatever the heck I wanted.

I'm a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things.

It's funny that everyone talks about Women's Revolution and I'm the first one to be behind all of them and be with them, but you can't forget that behind every Women's Revolution, there was a pack of women before them and before every single generation fought for something.

Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you?

There are so many feminist groups that talk about women's rights. But, there's domestic violence against men as well. Nobody talks about it because of the social stigma.

Western women have been a pretty tame lot - dressed in gingham dresses and consigned to hand-wringing back at the ranch, while the hero is fighting for her honor.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Ah," he said. "If you'd been born a man, you'd be a force to reshape the world." "Only a woman can do that.

Ein politischer Mann ist widerlich, ein politisches Weib aber grauenhaft […].