Feminist Quotes · Page 16

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...

— Aziz Ansari

The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.

— Margaret Hoover

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.

— Beyonce Knowles

I feel confident that I'm presenting myself in a feminist way that is good for young women.

— Bel Powley

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

— Jo Brand

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative…

— Laura Kightlinger

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

— Harriet Harman

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

— Emma Watson

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming…

— Beth Ditto

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their…

— Bari Weiss

At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which…

— Heather Hart

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

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said,…

— Gillian Jacobs

I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should…

— Maimouna Doucoure

Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they…

— Elif Safak

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female…

— Janice Raymond

I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right…

— Camille Paglia

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some…

— Amy Poehler

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

— Ani DiFranco

“It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are…of being alive. Scared…

— Kathleen Hanna

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are…

— June Millington

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

— Gemma Arterton

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

— Mary Daly

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?

— Zooey Deschanel

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

— Bell Hooks

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

— Judith Butler

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

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

— Bell Hooks

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

— Lana Del Rey

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Naomi Alderman

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

— Jessica Valenti

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

— Eliza Dushku

I'm not a strong woman at all. And I'm not a feminist. In fact, I'm very weak.

— Neena Gupta

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

— Kenny Loggins

“Feminism? It might change society, but it will certainly not change the man.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Hillary Clinton represents staunch feminists, she represents the new era of feminists.

— Rush Limbaugh