Lotte Verbeek Quotes

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

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.

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.

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

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

Women's rights are human rights.

I am a feminist.

Women are inferior to none.

Being a feminist is being equal to do what a man do.

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.