Sarah Hay Quotes

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

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.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.

Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.

I want to say to younger women especially that it's OK to be an outsider. It's OK to admit to your rage. You're not the only person walking down the street feeling angry inside.

As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

My lyrics are for strong, independent women who are both smart and fashionable.

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar!

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

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.