Halima Aden Quotes

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

A woman should be allowed to be whoever and whatever she wants to be and she should be respected for that.

A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified.

Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want to be different we should be different and we should be allowed to be different.

I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

I think a big part of feminism - and this is something I'm sure a bunch of women will take my head off for - but a big part of feminism is women allowing other women to just be the kind of women that they are.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

America is the land of opportunity, and people can live in America and be who they want to be. Don't deny your faith. Don't deny your ethnicity. Don't stereotype Muslim women, because as you can see with me, or in Lebanon, for example, beauty is appreciated.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

We need to respect choices that women make.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.