Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

Yes, I believe in equality. But I don't like the word 'feminist,' because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable.

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

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

Feminists want to be treated equally until they are.

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

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.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.