Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.

What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement. But I do think that personally they're missing out. If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

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.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.

The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.