Rupi Kaur Quotes

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

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

I think women should always be respected. I'm not going to stand on the corner with a picket sign, but I'm going to support my ladies all the way. But I also understand the views of men as well.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.