You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...” — Carolyn G. Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“…if divinity, which is the goddess, is intrinsic to her being, something she caries around with her all the time, something she… — Loriliai Biernacki Copy Share Image
It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
I consider myself conscious of how women are treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist. Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Feminist,” he said, clearly amused. “Next you’ll be telling us you hate men.” She gave him a blank look. “I only hate… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn't make me any less black… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Wonder Woman is most definitely a feminist, or a humanist, in no uncertain terms. Her prime goal in life is to teach… — George Perez Copy Share Image
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
To me it's always been a no-brainer. Maybe I'm just simplistic about it, but if you believe in equality of opportunity, and… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind… — J. F. Lawton Copy Share Image
“A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step.… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all… — Deborah Kampmeier Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening.… — Mike Adams Copy Share Image
“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role… — Miya Yamanouchi Copy Share Image
Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
“Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image