While Shailene Woodley has made a name for herself playing strong female leads in The Fault In Our Stars and the Divergent series, the 23-year-old actress doesn’t want people labeling her a “feminist.” In her April cover interview with Nylon, Woodley revealed that she doesn’t “want to be defined by one thing,” and hopes people will start focusing more on important world issues than “the small things that actors say.”

When Time asked Woodley last May if she considers herself a feminist, the Golden Globe-nominated young actress created controversy by remarking, “No because I love men, and I think the idea of “raise women to power, take the men away from the power” is never going to work out because you need balance.” Woodley went on to explain that she’s “50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine,” and said that she thinks if women rose to power and replaced men, it wouldn’t work.

The Insurgent star, who showed off her tomboy-chic style on the April cover of Nylon, attempted to better explain her aversion to being labeled a feminist in her recent interview with the magazine.

“The reason why I don’t like to say that I am a feminist or I am not a feminist is because to me it’s still a label,” she said. “I do not want to be defined by one thing. Why do we have to have that label to divide us? We should all be able to embrace one another regardless of our belief system and regardless of the labels that we have put upon ourselves.”

Woodley didn’t apologize for her controversial Time statement, but instead reminded readers that “if we spent as much energy focusing on the genocide that’s going on right now in parts of Africa as we spent on that one article, think about what we could accomplish.”

“Change is not going to come from focusing on the small things that actors say,” concluded Woodley.