The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
“She strode forward, steeling her tune against the terrible cries which threatened to tear her emotions from her and leave her half-conscious.… — Steven Raaymakers Copy Share Image
When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving… — Banks Copy Share Image
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I know there's a part of the feminist world that is like, "Hey, screw 'em, we'll do our own thing over here,"… — Erin Belieu Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Sickening, the way the youngest de Vibrey girl, to humour the whim of her kinky old father, is actually riding side-saddle today.… — A.P Copy Share Image
I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
“While an increasing number of male academic, political, and cultural figures have felt comfortable enough in recent years to proclaim themselves feminists,… — Maurice Berger Copy Share Image
We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today,… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
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
If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Yes, for the love of God young women, come along – learn your limits. Or, rather, know society’s limits. How dare you… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
“In this sense, we can render the false meaning of catharsis which occurs in pornography with a different meaning than the catharsis… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The most profound betrayal of feminist issues has been the lack of mass-based feminist protest challenging the government’s assault on single mothers… — bell hooks 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
“This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue. We… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.” — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name. — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
If feminism was a dress, it would be that essential little black number, reached for in times of need; different for everyone… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image