Feminist Quotes · Page 18

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 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

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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because…

— Betty Friedan

“Hodel saw it through her sister’s eyes: women were created to be in every way partners, not mindless slaves or brainless doormats,…

— Alexandra Silber

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which…

— Rush Limbaugh

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do…

— Diana Ross

“You know, I've never asked why it doesn't offend your feminist principles for me to carry this beast for you." I look…

— Justin Gustainis

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I…

— Vivienne Westwood

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically…

— Arielle Dombasle

Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right…

— Ani DiFranco

The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In…

— Bonnie Raitt

Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves,…

— Paula Gunn Allen

“I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the…

— Mike Adams

“It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is…

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't know about calling yourself a feminist. I also, for me, it's difficult for me to call myself a feminist in…

— Kellyanne Conway

“ What do you hope girls take away from watching [Agent Carter]? I would hope that young girls can see that they…

— Hayley Atwell

“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to…

— Angela Y. Davis

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

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

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

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

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

— Harriet Harman

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 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