Trevor Noah Quotes

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

I think empowerment of women is exactly what's happening now, with women being portrayed as human beings, and not just black and white. Men can be the anti-hero all the time, and it's cool, but when women are, they're twisted or messed up or something is wrong with them. I think it's just about portraying women in the world as equals to men, and vice versa.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Women are feminist by default.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Love women! I hate feminism. "Hate" may be an accurate word, but too strong to use. I strongly oppose feminism because it's nothing but liberalism, and it's doing nothing to actually advance women. It's doing just the exact opposite.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

I don't really consider myself to be a super feminist.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?