Susie Almaneih details celebrity activist, Emma Watson's, efforts on making a difference when it comes to gender equality throughout the world.

1. E M M A WAT S O N O N F E M I N I S M
B Y S U S I E A L M A N E I H

2. • Emma Watson, former
Harry Potter star, has been
widely recognized for her
support for female
empowerment.
• As a United Nations
Women Goodwill
Ambassador, she
represents the
organization’s HeForShe
Campaign, a movement
that stresses the
importance of equal rights
advocacy amongst both
genders.

3. • Last year, Emma Watson gave an
incredibly empowering speech at
the UN that went viral, inviting men
around the globe to participate in
women’s rights movements.
• In her speech, Ms. Watson stated, “‘I
want men to take up this mantle. So
their daughters, sisters and mothers
can be free from prejudice but also
so that their sons have permission to
be vulnerable and human too --
reclaim those parts of themselves
they abandoned and in so be a
more true and complete version of
themselves,” (The Huffington Post, 9
Great Quotes From Emma Watson).

4. • International Women’s Day, which
took place earlier this year in
March, inspired 24-year-old
Watson to address how crucial it
is for women and men to team
up and fight for gender equality
during a Facebook Q&A in
London.
• Here are just some of the many
powerful feminist thoughts she
had…

5. “We’re never, ever, ever
going to be able to fly as
high unless we’re both in
support of each other.”

6. “We need yin and yang.
We need that balance. We
need female
representation.”

7. “The human race is like a bird and it needs both its wings to
be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of its wings is clipped
and we’re never going to be able to fly as high.”

8. “If you stand for equality, then
you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell
you, you’re a feminist.”

9. “It’s not about men saving women,
and i think that’s a
misunderstanding. Women are
already in the club. We’re already in
the club because it’s our
movement. It’s not a men’s club. It’s
an equality club for both genders.”

10. “Don’t let anyone tell you
what you can or cannot do,
or cannot achieve. Do. Not.
Allow. It.”

11. “You’re not gonna get rid of
me until I get to see an equal
number of female prime
ministers and presidents and
CEOs, and more men that feel
like it’s okay to express how
they really feel about things.
And more fathers that are
present in their children’s lives.
And until I see us all not
policing and oppressing each
other and not ostracizing each
other. And when I live in a
world where this isn’t a
narrowly-defined definition of
masculinity and femininity. I’m
just not gonna go.”

12. And if those aren’t enough to
get you going, read more about
Ms. Watson’s inspiring
statements throughout her
interview in this article published
by The Huffington Post.