Young M.A Quotes

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Labels are for cans, not people.

Once you label me you negate me.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I hate labels.

I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead with that. I didn't want people to look at me like that's all I am.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

I don't want to have any category stamped on my face.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.