Dee Dee Myers Quotes

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

I think that women's lives are multilayered.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on top of that when I'm writing.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

I think women are excellent social critics.

I like women. I love women.

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.