Feminist Quotes · Page 15

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

— Rachel Cusk

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

— Robert Webb

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

— Doris Lessing

A feminist jumps out of a manhole - oh, and she didn't like that.

— Bill Bailey

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

— Sonia Rykiel

“Roxane Gay casts a lens on the nuances of feminism in Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, August.)”

— Anonymous

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got…

— Patti Smith

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said,…

— Gillian Jacobs

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they…

— Elif Safak

I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should…

— Maimouna Doucoure

I want to reduce the stigma of the word 'feminism.' It's not about eliminating and excluding. You can be yourself and still…

— Zoe Buckman

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything.…

— Marjane Satrapi

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying…

— Brittney Griner

There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so…

— Kathleen Hanna

There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still…

— Christine and the Queens

I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an…

— Emily Ratajkowski

“This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I…

— Christy Leigh Stewart

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or…

— Andrew Denton

“Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced…

— Nenia Campbell

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where…

— Maggie Nelson

I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a…

— Tavi Gevinson

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

— Laura Schlessinger

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

— Kathy Lette

As a feminist, I don't like the notion that women have to look a certain way: I think confidence is the most…

— Rebecca Front

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

— Aziz Ansari

The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.

— Margaret Hoover

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

— Laura Kightlinger

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

— Harriet Harman

I feel confident that I'm presenting myself in a feminist way that is good for young women.

— Bel Powley

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.

— Beyonce Knowles

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

— Jo Brand

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?

— Zooey Deschanel

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

— Emma Watson

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

— Mary Daly

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

— Gemma Arterton

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

— Lana Del Rey

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

— Bell Hooks