Nora Ephron Quotes

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.

I went to the Women's March in D.C. on January 21, and I, looking around, was thinking, Wow, something that bonds all of us is that we've been silent-screaming in our bathrooms, alone, in between sarcastic lunches.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

The Women's March moved me.

If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice when they face oppression, not after 10 years.

Things like the Women's March have been just so encouraging, and I'd like to see that continue.

At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.

But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.