Siouxsie Sioux Quotes

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

People are getting tired of the "good old boy" style of politics. Women [candidates] are the alternative.

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

The Proletariat cannot achieve complete liberty until it has won complete liberty for women.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

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.

It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Vote for Women – Vote Communist!

… few are the men who both appreciate women and genuinely care about their rights.

When women succeed America succeeds.

The position of women in SNCC is prone!