Emma Watson

If we don’t teach our young girls to speak at an early age, that doesn’t just happen.

Have you watched Snow White lately? I get real funky about the classics; I don’t like (my sons) watching it. It’s totally sexist, misogynistic – she’s cleaning for seven dwarfs. There’s nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to stay at home with her family, it’s a hard-ass job, but it’s the way it’s spoken about.

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

I actually trust the women I know. I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies and I trust them with their children. I trust that they are decent enough and wise enough and worthy enough to carry the right of abortion.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

For me, as a feminist, I would say it should be up to the woman to decide if she wants to be a mom … If she wants to go out and work, have a career other than being a mom, then she should be able to do that as well.

Only a woman can breathe under the water of life defying gravity and staying zen while doing it.

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.

I believe in gender equality. Being a feminist is for both women and men. I am a feminist.

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

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

I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do and be okay.

Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift.