I hope that there are many more women out there writing…

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a…

— Ani DiFranco

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early…

— Kathleen Hanna

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

— Naomi Alderman

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for…

— Naomi Alderman

“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human…

— Abhijit Naskar

“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by…

— Abhijit Naskar

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

— Jessica Valenti

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social…

— Michael Salter

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy

“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie