Feminism Quotes

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

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 did.

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

The political is personal.

The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, smelly men with delusions about male superiority.

Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.