women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
“Truth is, there comes a time when turning a new page in your life is the most liberating and empowering feeling you… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
When I did get married, and specifically after I got married and the New York Times style section featured my wedding in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Sexism occurs when we assume that some people are less valid or natural than others because of their sex, gender, or sexuality;… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
[Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Whenever I talk about being a feminist or speaking out for equality, it's also about the idea that men are treated with… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
“When The Woman is King (Sonnet) When the woman is king, no mother goes without leave, no dreamer goes without choice, no… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image