Feminist Quotes · Page 11

I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.

— Marin Alsop

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

— John Callahan

I don't like that word: feminist.

— Megyn Kelly

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of…

— Julie Burchill

I just happen to be a woman and involved in sport, but that doesn't necessarily make me a feminist.

— Katie Taylor

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

— Zaha Hadid

I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.

— Demi Lovato

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

— Josh McDowell

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

I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd…

— Mona Simpson

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I…

— Cybill Shepherd

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think…

— Ellen Glasgow

People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to…

— Andi Zeisler

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such…

— Teresa de Lauretis

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

“Imagine this: Instead of waiting in her tower, Rapunzel slices off her long, golden hair with a carving knife, and then uses…

— Theappleppielifestyle

“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no…

— Dale Spender

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“[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

[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

[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

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

— Tammy Bruce