Diane English Quotes

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

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.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.

If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

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

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.