39 Quotes by Scarlett Curtis

But I suppose the difference is, you hadn't felt any limitations or frustrations before that, whereas I was already angry by twenty.

Why are those characters running and jumping, and that girl character is watching and giggling at the side?Why, when I was at school, were no celebrated scientists, musicians, or playwrights, women? Why are we only taught about the achievements of men?Why, when women unite and come together with their voices raised, does the term 'witch hunt' get bandied around?Why are some of my natural characteristics referred to as 'tomboy'?

In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in a conversation, in split seconds, in quit determined moments.

Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity.

We so often write about how gender limits us, whereas perhaps a better approach is to think about what we can achieve in spite of the way society limits us through its construction of gender norms.

No matter who you are, if in your mind you are born a girl, you will grow to be a women through experience. It is not a biological process, it is not losing your virgnity, it is not giving birth or raising children, nor is it a thing that can be calculated or defined: it is a staggeringly ineffable, gorgeous uphill battle from chaos towards a chosen selfhood of contentment, self-belief, self-love, and empowerment.

I'm so excited to watch the next generation of teenage feminists make their mark on the world because I truly believe they're going to achieve extraordinary things.

A feminist who only fights for the lives of women like herself isn't fighting for everyone, so I'm going to keep going at this feminist thing until all women have the same access to human rights.

You don't get to play it safe by the sidelines and object to our feminist movement while we pay the cost for speaking up and showing up.