Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

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.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

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

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.