Desmond Tutu

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

We won’t unlock opportunities for young women and girls unless we can change the mindset of every family and community. To achieve this, it cannot just be women who speak up for girls.

A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

I’m definitely a feminist. I’m f*cking disgusted by the way women are still treated.

As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.

You can’t whisper magical thoughts in your daughter’s ear and go into a workplace where you tolerate [this] existence. If you are tolerating that, that’s the workplace that will be waiting for your little girl, and you have sold her a bill of goods.

Our first job in life as women, I think, is to get to know ourselves. And I think a lot of times we don’t do that. We spend our time pleasing, satisfying, looking out into the world to define who we are – listening to the messages, the images, the limited definitions that people have of who we are.

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

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights, the world will be a better place.

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

If you’re someone who genuinely believes that women don’t deserve or aren’t as much as men, you’re like the plague. On the big history chart, you’re the plague … it’s just pointless and deadly.

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.

Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.

We can never be complacent and think that we’ve arrived now as women. Because I hear this from young women. Some of you young women who aren’t feeling the pains that many of our predecessors have felt – you think, well, there aren’t any problems, women’s rights, we’ve got this all figured out, I’m already equal, I’m good – I’m just like, oh, just you wait, you’ll feel it. So the work continues.