Feminism Quotes · Page 70

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out…

— Mel Gibson

In the industry, I am judged by what I wear. If I want to be taken seriously, I have to hire a…

— Swara Bhaskar

“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Following the 'rules' of fashion... binds our bodies. It knits our legs together and prevents us from taking up space. It compels…

— Sarah Hays Coomer

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism…

— Judy Chicago

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“Men have worked as essentially shop keepers and store clerks for a lot longer than they have worked on assembly lines. There…

— Lance Mannion

I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being…

— Skepta

“The proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

— Florence King

“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women…

— Debora Spar

“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no…

— Rebecca Traister

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

— Chelsea Clinton

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

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls,…

— Kathleen Hanna

I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid…

— Marcia Clark

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the…

— Caitlin Moran

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who…

— Toni Morrison

“Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly…

— Tiffany Dufu

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

— Katori Hall

“Some men are terrified by the dark nature of the Moon, but not the Devil. The Devil is afraid of nothing he…

— Tanya Thompson

I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been…

— Kristina Schroder

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

— Kate Millett

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

— Liz Stanley

Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer.…

— Jennifer Shahade

'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is an idealized, fun comedy world in which feminism is an underlying value that all the characters have. Equality is…

— Stephanie Beatriz

“Practically every princess in peril has been saved by Love's First Kiss! For goodness' sake, between witches and fairies, can't we think…

— Serena Valentino

If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always…

— Bell Hooks

There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the…

— Gloria Steinem

Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?

— Steve Bannon

Woman's cause is one and universal.

— Anna Julia Cooper

“A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I…

— Anonymous

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

— Robin Morgan

“But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.”

— Bill Maher

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

— Dalai Lama

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

— Alice Walker

The issues that matter to women also matter to communities... and these issues have a ripple effect all across the country. And…

— Nina Turner