Nell Scovell Quotes

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.

One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done.

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

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 was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

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

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

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

I've worked with so few female directors.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.