Jessica Chastain Quotes

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.

If you look back at what I believe and what I stand for, I am certainly a proud feminist.

If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

I'm definitely a feminist.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

We are the women men warned us about.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I am most certainly a feminist.

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

Women are sacred.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.