Joel Kinnaman Quotes

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

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.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I have never let gender get in my way.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

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.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

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?

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.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.