Helen Fielding Quotes

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

Women have a voice; they're empowered, and they're heard.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.