Emily Chang Quotes

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

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.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.

The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.

In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going on and it's been building since the modern era of the feminazis began, since the late sixties and early seventies.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.