30 Powerful Emma Watson Quotes About Feminism
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Let’s accept it; we need people like Emma Watson who can be strongly vocal about feminism. Emma has always been vocal about her take on feminism and gender equality.
Anyone who believes in gender equality would be a fan of Emma Watson. Not only she is a great actor, but Emma is also a feminist and an activist who has always spoken her heart out, as evidenced by her speech at the 2017 MTV Awards. She is also a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality.
As a strong feminist, her words have the power to bring a change in society. We have collected the 30 most powerful Quotes by Emma Watson for you. These Emma Watson quotes on feminism will definitely open your mind.
Emma Watson Quotes About Feminism
“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”
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“I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.”
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“The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.”
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“I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.” –
Emma Watson, Emma Watson criticises ‘dangerously unhealthy’ pressure on young women”. Interview with Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014
“Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice.”
Emma Watson, The December 2014 ELLE Cover Interview” by Lorraine Candy, www.elle.com. March 06, 2015
“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.”
“We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men.”
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“If you stand for equality, then you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell you.”
Emma Watson, HeForShe Conversation with Emma Watson on International Women’s Day 2015 [Full Q&A] – Official”. Youtube video, www.youtube.com. March 8, 2015
“Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.”
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“Women feel like we need permission. …We need to lead and change that.”
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“We [women] really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.” –
Emma Watson, 25 Times Emma Watson Was Our Girl Crush” by Sam Reed, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 15, 2015
“This isn’t just, ‘Girls are better than boys, boys are better than girls’. This is just, ‘Everyone deserves a fair chance’.”
“The more I have spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.”
Emma Watson, United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014
“It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are.”
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“Women really need to support each other, we really do. So, I guess I would say be brave enough to acknowledge that things are not there yet and support each other.”
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“Feminism can be humorous, and we all have a different way of approaching that. I often wonder what mischief I can make to spread the word in a playful way. You can’t take everything in life seriously, can you?”
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“Women and girls have always faced hurdles. But that’s never stopped us. We’ve sacrificed, fought, campaigned, succeeded, been knocked back, and succeeded again. In a race for justice, we’ve leapt over countless obstacles to win our rights.”
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“It’s not the word [feminism] that is important. It’s the idea and ambition behind it.”
“Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom. It’s about liberation. It’s about equality.”
Emma Watson, Reuters, in response to critics of her photos in Vogue magazine (March 5, 2017)
“We [women] have unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we’re human beings and our bodies have a function.”
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“Femininity needs to be embraced wherever it is, whether it be in a man or a woman or a nonconforming gender person.“
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“I have experienced sexism in that I have been directed by male directors 17 times and only twice by women. Of the producers I’ve worked with, 13 have been male and only one has been a woman. But I am lucky: I have always insisted on being treated equally and have generally won that equality.”
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“Women share this planet fifty-fifty and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.”
Emma Watson, Emma Watson Gives Another Impassioned Speech About Gender Equality at World Economic Forum
“Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.”
“If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There’s no two ways about it. The majority of the boys around me were like, ‘Why did you do that? That’s such an error.’ And I was like, ‘Well, honestly, I don’t really care what you think!’ I’ve never felt so confident as I did with short hair — I felt really good in my own skin.”
Emma Watson, Emma Watson Talks Style, Dating, and Life After Harry Potter in Her October 2012 Glamour Interview”. Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.glamour.com. September 3, 2012
“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.”
Emma Watson, Harry Potter’ Actress Emma Watson Sick Of Having ‘no Control’ Over Her Life” by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. June 13, 2011
“I try and intellectualize a lot, which [Hermione] does as well obviously. She’s very determined, I am as well. I like to think that I am very loyal in the same way that she is. Bit of a feminist in the same way that she is. I will speak my mind in the same way that she does.”
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“For the record, feminism, by definition, is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.”
Emma Watson, United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014
“Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women’s movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it’s affecting men hasn’t really been addressed.”
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“Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it’s what makes you a human.”
Feminism does not mean to hate men; it is about giving equal and fair chances to both men and women. We hope that these quotes by Emma Watson on feminism would help you understand the real meaning of feminism.
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Woow…very powerful quotes from a passionate woman
Thank you Annclairegachie!
Love all the quotes by Emma. Thank you for this wonderful post. 😇
Thank you Nimallan!