Quotes About Feminism

I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

There is more of a demand, especially on the Internet and on Tumblr and Twitter, from women who are like, 'We want to see more of us on TV!'.

Audiences need to keep demanding shows with strong female leads.

If there was a Liberal Democrat government, there clearly would be women in the Liberal Democrat Cabinet.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

I would never do anything that's derogatory to women.

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

I deserve to be paid the same as men.

Women absolutely deserve respect.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

I couldn't reconcile being a progressive feminist with being the mother of a male: advocating for policies that discriminated against him and targeted him simply for his sex, advocating an ideology that was a direct contradiction to my role as a mother to protect and nurture my child.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

Posing for 'Playboy' for me was a classy and tasteful thing to do.

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Women likely are rejecting Trump because they know the presidential race isn't just about taxes or ISIL or immigration. It's about their place in society and how a Trump presidency would drag women back a half-century.

People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message.