Gemma Arterton Quotes

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

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.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

Being a feminist means asking for equality. But people take it the other way at times. It is looked down upon is because it is seen as man-hating. But, feminism is a really crazy idea that suggests men and women are equal.

Young girls getting into feminism.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I still consider myself a feminist.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

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

I am most certainly a feminist.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.