Feminist Quotes · Page 16

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

— Bell Hooks

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I…

— Carrie Underwood

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

— Judith Butler

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

— Nora Ephron

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

— Maxime Bernier

Beyonce is very outspoken on feminist issues. So I think that's good. That could be brought to the forefront more.

— Aretha Franklin

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

— Cameron Russell

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

— Sam Kinison

Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new…

— Andrea Dworkin

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's…

— Bell Hooks

You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who…

— Danielle Henderson

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in…

— Kristin Davis

“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men…

— Tina Fey

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but…

— Marlo Thomas

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as…

— Mary Daly

The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And…

— Carolyn Maloney

There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll…

— Jessica Valenti

“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And…

— Abhijit Naskar

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no…

— Dale Spender

Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The…

— Doris Lessing

Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't…

— Warren Farrell

The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment… Hungry women are…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go…

— Rashida Jones

“Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!”

— Abhijit Naskar

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.

— Mac Miller

I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body…

— Busy Philipps

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

— Amy Winehouse

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

— Audre Lorde

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

— Sonia Rykiel

I think I am a feminist in that I believe in equal pay between men and women.

— Keeley Hazell

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

— Warren Farrell

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

— Linda Woolverton

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Judith Plaskow