Family Quote by Mona Eltahawy

My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and…

— Mona Eltahawy

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house…

— Joss Whedon

I was a teenager in the 1970s and grew up in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

— Jamal Khashoggi

My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

— Roxane Gay

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

— Hanna Rosin

We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom…

— Mona Eltahawy

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was…

— Amanda de Cadenet

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up.…

— Nina Tassler

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for…

— Anna Quindlen

When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.

— Maimouna Doucoure

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

— Agnes Varda