Tavi Gevinson Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers...and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rule book but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Strong, Badass

• Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

  Tavi Gevinson

  Feminism, Process, Conversation

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

• Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Mean, Fighting

  "Yousafzai The Observer How young heroines helped redefine girlhood as a state of strength" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.

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