Joan Jett Quotes

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

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.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

I don't talk about things like women power and this and that. Because I believe fighting for it is saying we are weaker. I don't believe in that concept. For me, there is no fighting for women.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I'm not a feminist.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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 don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.