Prince Philip Quotes

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'

If you look back at what I believe and what I stand for, I am certainly a proud feminist.

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

Women can better perceive injustice.

I think being a feminist is to each her own. It's kind of like asking someone what being a woman means to them. We should all be feminists. We should all want equality.

I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

Because of the discrimination during my time as a teenager I decided to live my life as I want it.

I don't disown feminism, but I don't believe in such labels.

Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits.

I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.

The piece of legislation that I'm so excited and delighted to be doing is shared parental leave.

I'm going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the 'f-word' scared me. People would ask me if I was a feminist, and I didn't know how to respond. The word seemed to put guys off, but now I realise, who cares?

I really do not know how to define a real feminist.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

We heroines don't get good roles.

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.