What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
If I feel something, it's how I feel. I never say, 'I feel this way, so you should feel that way.' Not… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her;… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“She moves deftly and quietly through misogyny. In recent years her voice has become more pervasive, more intriguing. She has been too… — Alice B. Grist Copy Share Image
Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe in equality. But I don't like the word 'feminist,' because it's such a rational belief to think that women… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play when I was nine, it was about Robin Hood, from Maid Marian's point of view. I was… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I will stand for equality, and that doesn't mean giving me reservation. I would like to fight for it; just give me… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata,… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Women who display themselves as sex objects do not represent women as a gender anymore than the chippendales or Ron Jeremy represent… — Anonymouse Copy Share Image
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going… — Lya Sorano Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the… — Gwen Sharp Copy Share Image
If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“What is more of a symbol of eternal growth and change than the Goddess? The eternal spiral of creation. Coiled like a… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image