John Darnielle Quotes

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

Equality for women is progress for all.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

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'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

While most men don't have first-hand experience with gender-based discrimination, we can still be powerful allies for advancing women's rights. We need to do a better job of listening to women and standing up for what's right, even when it's not popular or comfortable.

Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to.

Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

We really need to listen to women more. All of us.

It's 2015. And I just want to get to the point where we're hearing female voices as much as we're hearing men's.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

I am really glad women are speaking out.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.