Feminist Quotes

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.