Feminist Quotes · Page 24

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

— Anne Hathaway

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

— Michelle Stuart

“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

— Euripides

To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

— Andrea Dworkin

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

— Terry Crews

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

— Emma Watson

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

— Carolyn R. Dimmick

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

— A. S. Byatt

“But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked…

— Janine di Giovanni

Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even…

— Amanda Marcotte

“With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It’s OK to fuck around if you’re a feminist but it’s also not OK to…

— David Foster Wallace

“His eyes narrowed, and I could see the reflexive No in them. I would come to know this type of man, jealous…

— Madeline Miller

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways…

— Goldie Hawn

The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize…

— Charlene Spretnak

Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In the US in recent years, around a third of all open management positions have gone to women. My research over the…

— Hanna Rosin

I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

“Why isn't every woman a feminist? Feminism tells a tale of female injury, but the average woman in heterosexual intimacy knows that…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but…

— Garrett Hardin

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions…

— Sandi Toksvig

You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in…

— Gail Collins

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not…

— Bell Hooks

“An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word.…

— Marisa Meltzer

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less…

— Roxane Gay

We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

— Beyonce Knowles

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

— David Bailey

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

— Jill Scott

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

— Arundhati Roy

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

— Jessica Pare

“I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.”

— C.J. Redwine

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

— Gloria Steinem

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

— Pam Grier

“Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.”

— Hunter Avallone

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing…

— Roxane Gay

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

— Kathleen Hanna

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

— Susan Faludi

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem