Feminist Quotes

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.

Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.

If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

I would love for people to know that the label feminist is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

I've never been a feminist.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?