Anne Hathaway Quotes

I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

I come from a strong woman who believed - and my father believed - that anything a man could do, a woman could do better.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.