17 celebrities die zichzelf een feminist durven te noemen

'People would ask, as if it was a joke, "so you mean you are a feminist?" as though feminism couldn't ben discussed unless we're making fun of it.'

'We can't be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a fucking feminist and wear a fucking Peter Pan collar. So fucking what?'

'When women are empowered, they immeasurably improve the lives of everyone around them. We men need to recognize the part we play too. Real men treat women with dignity and give them the respect they deserve.'

'I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love — and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.'

'All men should be feminists. If men care about women's rights, the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered — it leads to a better society.'

'I think some big actors and musicians feel like they have to speak to their audience and that word is confusing to their audience. But I don't get it. That's like someone being like, 'I don't really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don't know what I would do without it.'

'Women saying 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist. People think there is something taboo about speaking up for feminism.'

'Humanity requires both men and women, and we are equally important and need one another. So why are we viewed as less than equal? These old attitudes are drilled into us from the very beginning. We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up, gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.'

'If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong good women would be number one.'

'I think there's so much that's not said about sex in our country, even from an educational level … the one thing they teach about is how to get pregnant or how to not get pregnant, but they don't really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women. … Part of that creates a place where women aren't empowered around their own sexuality and their own sexual selves, and from a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that's empowered with her own sexuality is a powerful thing.'

'I don't know why it's a taboo to be a feminist.'

'I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.  I still don't think we're there 100 percent. I mean, guy rappers grab their crotch all f–king day and have hos around them, but no one talks about it. But if I grab my crotch and I have hot model bitches around me, I'm degrading women? I'm a woman—I should be able to have girls around me! But I'm part of the evolution of that. I hope.'

'I am a feminist. And I'm so glad that Lena Dunham exists, because she is one too, and she's quite vocal about it. Yes, women have more freedom and more influence than ever, but it's hardly equal. It's just not. It's really f–king crazy. I'm sorry I'm cursing. But it's wild that women are underrepresented [in Hollywood]. I have real anxiety about directing, and that's something to question and challenge and correct.'

'I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you where to take any woman back 40 years and say "is this a world you want to live in?" they would say "no".'

'I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!'

'We would always watch Lakers games as a family, but my mom would always point out every time the cheerleaders came on, 'OK, so look, here's the story that gets told: The men get to be the heroic skilled athletes and the women just get to be pretty. She wanted me and my brother to be aware of it because we see these images on TV, in the movies, and in magazines all the time. And if you don't stop and think about it, it just sort of seeps into your brain and that becomes the way you perceive reality.'

'To say you're not a feminist means that you think men should have more rights and opportunities than women.'

'I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists … but how could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word? … Feminism always gets associated with being a radical movement — good. It should be. A lot of what the radical feminists [in the 1970s] were saying, I don't disagree with it.'