I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them.… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist. — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I call it feminism instead of equality because it is the feminine traits that men and women are shamed for. It is… — Goblinfae Copy Share Image
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“You will experience the triple Goddess—Maiden, Mother, and Crone. These phases are symbolic to, not just your own life, but life as… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old… — Nancy Ruth Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is not a secret that I am a feminist and I have more liberal views and a lot of these GamerGaters… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality,… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
“She never liked to be called pretty - for she was a wildflower. Roaming alone through deep woods not caring if she… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
