Norbert Leo Butz Quotes

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.

I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.

Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we have a responsibility to care.

Not to get too deep, but I was brought up by these women who if you wanted to label them, maybe they were feminists, but you know what? They never asked for that or wanted it and they never got up on a soapbox and spoke about it, they just did it. They did their work, they did their jobs, they were who they were.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

I think that women's lives are multilayered.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

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

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

I am most certainly a feminist.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Women are the real architects of society.

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.