Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Quotes

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.

Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.

I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I'm walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.