Feminist Quotes

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

As a feminist, I'll wear whatever I want to.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

Hillary Clinton represents staunch feminists, she represents the new era of feminists.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.

I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

I'm like, "Let me marry a feminist, let's do this thing." It's about time men should show up and say, "Yes, she should have access to whatever she needs."

I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian.

Who laughs less than feminists?

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.