Feminist Quotes · Page 22

“No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me.”

— Alicen Grey

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

— Rachel Cusk

“Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil.”

— Mae Crawford

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

— Rita Mae Brown

We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.

— Melissa Farley

I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.

— Laura Harrier

“Powerful women don’t need another pair of yoga pants, we need a mic.”

— Emma Mildon

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

— Tammy Bruce

It's one thing to say you're feminist, but then what does that mean? Not selling arms to a regime that is the…

— Jagmeet Singh

Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

I was very fortunate to grow up in France with amazing parents who allowed me to understand the importance of activism. My…

— Dominique Crenn

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The…

— Barack Obama

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love,…

— Beth Ditto

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not…

— Frances McDormand

Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal…

— Leighton Meester

I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I couldn't reconcile being a progressive feminist with being the mother of a male: advocating for policies that discriminated against him and…

— Dana Loesch

How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism?…

— Sara Ahmed

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were…

— Bell Hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression…

— Bell Hooks

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem…

— Hilary Mantel

There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own…

— Doris Lessing

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human…

— Anne Lamott

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

— Jane Fonda

I just happen to be a woman and involved in sport, but that doesn't necessarily make me a feminist.

— Katie Taylor

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better…

— Anna Quindlen

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of…

— Julie Burchill

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really…

— Alessia Cara

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

— Anonymous

I spent seven seasons on 'Mad Men,' playing what became considered a very feminist character.

— Elisabeth Moss

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

— Romola Garai

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect…

— Pam Grier

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

— Elizabeth May

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

— Crystal Eastman

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

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

— Rashida Jones

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

— Marilyn French