Feminist Quotes · Page 13

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

— Norma McCorvey

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

“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.”

— Mariam Khan

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

— Rene Veaux

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

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up…

— James Hillman

Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things 
to relieve women’s…

— Evie Wyld

“Women are these wonderful mysteries and they excite me on all kinds of levels. Their power over us is, I think, often…

— Clive Barker

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

— John Legend

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be…

— Diane von Furstenberg

“…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

Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted…

— Ishmael Reed

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism,…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

“She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.”

— Hillary Jordan

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

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

— Robert Webb

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

— Sonia Rykiel

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Roxane Gay casts a lens on the nuances of feminism in Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, August.)”

— Anonymous