What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers. . . When the covers change, that's when culture changes.
Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?
I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist. ' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
I think there's a part of society that is very for women being confident and being empowered, but I think there's another part of society that feels very threatened by women being powerful. Because of the feminist movement, a lot of women are feeling way more empowered to be themselves and do what they want to do in life.
I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.
The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do. . . birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.
I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.