Geena Davis Quotes

Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

... as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few [women] have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I would love for people to know that the label 'feminist' is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

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.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.