Feminist Quotes · Page 6

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

— Susan Brownmiller

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

— Kriti Sanon

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

— Sally Kempton

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

— Beyonce Knowles

“Men are scumbags until they prove they're women.”

— Robin Mellom

“I’ll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy.”

— Meg SULLIVAN

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

— Jack Gelber

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

— Carl Andre

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

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

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

“Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man…

— Karin Slaughter

Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming"…

— Dean Spade

I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result…

— Audre Lorde

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be…

— Marya Mannes

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing…

— Kathleen Hanna

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or…

— Camille Paglia

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate…

— Antony Hegarty

I'm proud that I can do that material in a club gig where a lot of people think Page 3's a bit…

— Sara Pascoe

[talking about word "homophobia":] I myself don´t like "gays" - and let me stress that I don't consider that word a synonym…

— Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it.…

— Melissa Gira Grant

Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to…

— Marilyn Frye

Hillary Clinton was the first professional First Lady, the first feminist First Lady, the first First Lady from the '60s generation, the…

— Michael Tomasky

We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,…

— Susan Faludi

“Everyone insists [motherhood] is her purpose, and it drives her mad, the idea that the shape of her body determines the shape…

— Victoria Schwab

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how…

— Audre Lorde

What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the…

— Mary Blakely

“We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

— Peter Kreeft

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

— Marti Noxon

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry”

— Gloria Steinem

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

— Frances O'Grady

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

— Susie Orbach

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

— Sheila Rowbotham

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

— Ida Lupino