Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we're right-on feminists, but underneath that, there's still the bedrock of romance.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by the enormous gender divide in the U.S. literary world. But I don't know how to deal with it, so I don't tend to say much about it.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

Women are feminist by default.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.