Susan Faludi Quotes

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

The role of women is not to be circumscribed.

Women’s rights are human rights.

Women's rights are human rights.

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

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

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I still consider myself a feminist.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.