Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.