Asma Jahangir Quotes

A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern.

Hollywood is hard on women.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

All this talk of equality remains merely on paper. In real life, women are still bound by several psychological shackles and emotional boundaries imposed on them by their families and others. If a girl comes home late, she is asked 100 questions, whereas boys are not answerable for anything. And this prevails across segments.

If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.

In India and elsewhere in the world, the moment a woman speaks out against harassment, people sort of start making all sorts of character judgments about her, about her morality, about what she was wearing, and all such things, and I think that is not fair.

Women don't get the benefits of America the way men do.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

I keep saying this: If you're not a feminist, you're a bad person.

I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.