Quotes about "Women's Wisdom"

American presidential leadership never goes out of style. ”

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place. ”

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs. ”

My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out. ”

I am appalled to hear the defence of the niqab or burka in Europe. A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues of those who would normally rally to defend women's rights but who are now instead sacrificing those very rights in the name of fighting an increasingly powerful right wing. ”

I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an ultra-conservative ideology that equates piety with the disappearance of women. ”

In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things. ”

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality. ”

I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system that I like to say I was traumatized into feminism. ”

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard. ”