Emma Watson Quotes

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

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

It's not a man's world any more.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.

If you empower women, you can change the world.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.