Feminist Quotes · Page 11

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

— Estelle Ramey

I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight…

— Elisabeth Moss

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not…

— Felicity Jones

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

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists…

— Laura Bates

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

— Naomi Alderman

“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer…

— Abhijit Naskar

There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist. But you do kind of get a nice patriarchal pat on the head…

— Jessica Valenti

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is…

— Roxane Gay

I'm going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the 'f-word' scared me. People would ask me if I…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Women need to be treated equally as men, but there are issues with the term feminist and people balk at that.

— Sara Cox

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

— Rita Mae Brown

If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you…

— Jessica Valenti

I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book…

— Kameron Hurley

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too…

— Laurie Penny

I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian…

— Tina Fey

“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I…

— Carrie Underwood

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…

— Ani DiFranco

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the…

— Cilla Black

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were…

— Bell Hooks

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in…

— Isabel Allende

“It wouldn’t be very ladylike to punch a guy in the balls, but it isn’t very manlike to harass a woman because…

— Caroline George

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

— Anonymous

“Don't make yourself small. Not for anyone. If someone tells you you're too much... too loud, too sensitive, too fierce, too caring,…

— L.R. Knost