Feminist Quotes · Page 19

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

— Jo Brand

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

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

— Natalie Portman

“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it -…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.”

— Fay Weldon

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

— Betty Buckley

I was encouraged, though, because I saw feminist writers - male and female - calling out the bias. I feel like more…

— Paula Broadwell

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from…

— Arundhati Roy

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd…

— Bo Burnham

Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all…

— Tina Fey

There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to…

— Cole Sprouse

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced…

— Camille Paglia

When the mini skirt arrived on the scene in the 60s it was both hailed and hated. It represented female liberation, but…

— Dawn O'Porter

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot…

— Stephenie Meyer

“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world…

— Abhijit Naskar

“So what is transgressive in the practice of this secret Tantra is the gesture not to elide the difference that women present.…

— Loriliai Biernacki

We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no…

— Susan J. Douglas

All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the…

— Betty Friedan

I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem…

— Maggie Nelson

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all…

— Michelle Malkin

It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one.…

— Lizz Winstead

“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

— bell hooks

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

— Tammy Bruce

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

— Homer

“A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.”

— George Egerton

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

— Amy Lee

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

— Nick Cave

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

— Anonymous

I'm sure the hard-core feminist will say we're trapped, but I think viewers see how empowered we are.

— Bridget Marquardt

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

— Andrea Dworkin

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.

— Marcia Clark

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

— Lena Dunham

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

— Natalie Dormer

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

— Gail Sheehy

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

— Park Chan-wook