Suzi Quatro Quotes

What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I try to be free. The women also must be free.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

All men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty

I have the right to choose who my mate shall be without the dictation of any man. I am not a slave.

I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.