Mia Wasikowska Quotes

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

Being a feminist means asking for equality. But people take it the other way at times. It is looked down upon is because it is seen as man-hating. But, feminism is a really crazy idea that suggests men and women are equal.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.