Feminist Quotes · Page 12

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

— Hanna Rosin

“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”

— Ruth Ozeki

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

— Patti Smith

I'm a massive feminist, but I think it's a little unfair on the other sex saying they're not in it to change…

— Jo Swinson

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

— Fay Weldon

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

— Bonnie Greer

I'm a feminist, so it's just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.

— Maggie Rogers

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself…

— Barbara Kruger

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed…

— Sol LeWitt

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred…

— Sarah Silverman

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in…

— Lotte Verbeek

“There are four key pillars holding you up that you can re-ground yourself to. Your responsibility. Your power. Your Compassion. And your…

— Emma Mildon

“Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find…

— Emilie Autumn

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the…

— Margaret Atwood

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a…

— Camille Paglia

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here…

— Ani DiFranco

I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of…

— Robin Morgan

I don't know if I'm a feminist, as much as I really love being a woman and I'm proud to be a…

— Macy Gray

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in…

— John Legend

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she…

— Bettany Hughes

I actually felt like college was a much better and more comfortable environment for me than high school was. I think that…

— Julie Zeilinger

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader…

— Shirin Ebadi

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in…

— Phyllis Schlafly

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

— Beyonce Knowles

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

— Emma Watson

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

— Michelle Stuart

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

— Andrea Dworkin

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

— Rene Veaux

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same…

— Carla Bruni

I'm a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word... but we need feminism in our country.

— Jwala Gutta

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

— Trinny Woodall

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

— Shania Twain

One day I look forward to making dinner for my husband and children. I don't want to be a career feminist.

— Lisa Haydon

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

— Rachel Cusk

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

— Kate Atkinson

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want…

— Mayim Bialik

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

— Les Dawson