Quotes About Feminism

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

Gender equality does not exist anywhere.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'

There's always an assumption that when the girls get married they don't want to work.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

I'm proud that I can do that material in a club gig where a lot of people think Page 3's a bit of fun and you're the feminist with the problem. It's always funnier to say: this is my opinion, look how we disagree.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I love girl power.

Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

Far too often, I read a script where the girls are the girlfriend or the set dressing.

I don't want to play the girlfriend who's there because she's the girlfriend. And. That's. Her. Job. I want to play women and girls who are active and strong and who have a character arc and make decisions and have a rich background.