Feminist Quotes

The world was hers for the reading.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

In In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

I'm a feminist at heart, and I'm totally aware of why people have an issue with this show.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.