Jimmy Carter

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights …

You can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean that you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

[Feminism] means that you believe in the equality of the sexes in every way.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

It’s pretty clear that if men were having babies we’d have different policies.

As I grow and I get older I’m realising more and more that there’s such a beautiful, sensual power that we have as women.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.

I was subscribing to this sick identity. … Stay in your place, be feminine, be a lady, don’t make too much noise.

If we want our daughters to dream bigger than we did we still have work to do.

I think the golden rule for men should be: If you’re a man, don’t say anything to a woman on the street that you wouldn’t want a man saying to you in prison.

I love to challenge the status quo. That’s been my mission from day one as an actress and an early feminist wanting equality and wanting to push the limits of what’s possible.

The first thing about empowerment is to understand that you have the right to be involved. The second one is that you have something important to contribute. And the third piece is that you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Girls should never be afraid to be smart.

So early in our lives we are shushed. And not just directly shushed but sometimes in our lives we’re treated too preciously. We may have a father that loves us and treats us like a doll. They don’t treat us like real beings and equal partners.