Sarah Pinborough Quotes

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

I think women are excellent social critics.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

I am more feminist than feminists.

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created in the human mind.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it's all women's responsibility to step forward.

Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.

I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.

I'm not a strong woman at all. And I'm not a feminist. In fact, I'm very weak.

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

In my village, people believed that women should stay in their homes. However, I followed my heart and showed them that I'll not succumb to their regressive ideals.

I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.