Donna Strickland Quotes

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights.

If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

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.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about “us”; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

I'm obviously all for women's lib.

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.

The more the women beat the men hopefully that will bring up more opportunities for us and then the possibilities are endless as to what can happen.

I come from a strong woman who believed - and my father believed - that anything a man could do, a woman could do better.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

I want to empower women.

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

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

Equality for women is progress for all.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.