Feminist Quotes · Page 10

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

— Madeline Brewer

“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to…

— Caroline George

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

— Isabel Allende

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

— Betty Friedan

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

— Rudy Giuliani

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

— Marilyn French

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go…

— Rashida Jones

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue…

— Elif Batuman

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that…

— Will Rogers

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to…

— Eleanor Smeal

“Feminism remains a crucial element of any program for social justice today, which is why patriarchal forces attempt to eliminate or marginalize…

— Robert Jensen

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort…

— Eliza Dushku

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

— Camille Paglia

"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for…

— Sarah Gavron

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others,…

— Melissa Leo

“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears…

— Nivedita Menon

Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…

— Michael Hardt

There is an amazing feminist writer called Lindy West; she wrote a very nice piece for The New York Times. She wrote…

— Richa Chadha

After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of…

— Cornelia Parker

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

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

— Arundhati Roy

The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did…

— R. C. Sproul

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is…

— Louise Mensch

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

— Crystal Eastman

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

— Elizabeth May

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect…

— Pam Grier

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

— Nick Cave

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

— Amy Lee

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

— Homer

“A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.”

— George Egerton

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

— Betty Buckley

“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.”

— Fay Weldon

“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it -…

— Abhijit Naskar

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

— Natalie Portman

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

— Diane Wilson

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

— Robin Morgan

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

— Phyllis Schlafly