“I think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.”
Emma Watson at Facebook HQ during a live Q&A for International Women’s Day (March 8, 2015)
I keep telling myself that I’m a human being who’s not made to look like a doll and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure. It makes me sat to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have this unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we’re human beings and our bodies have a function.