Joan Kirner Quotes

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.

I don't need equal time, I am equal time!

Other things equal, we should give a chance to women. That's what I try to do.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

I consider myself an activist for women like me, who want to be confident and don't want to be judged.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

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.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

Ability is sexless.