Feminist Quotes

I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

I hope I just show women that its OK to inhabit your own body. Im not a rah-rah feminist. But its important to me that people see you can be an athlete and be strong-and also be a girl.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

I do consider myself to be a feminist.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.