Feminist Quotes

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?

The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

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.

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that inevitably people will say, "This is feminist." Because you cannot avoid that.

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

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

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

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

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.

Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

The king was pregnant.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.