Les Dawson Quotes

These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

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.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

Strong female leads are important.

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

The issues that matter to women also matter to communities... and these issues have a ripple effect all across the country. And the purist sense of the feminist tradition - feminism is not anti-man. It is pro-humanity.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.