Feminist Quotes · Page 18

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

— Evelyn Cunningham

“The saying ‘the future is female’ is wrong. The truth is, ‘the future is feminine.’ There is a difference.”

— Emma Mildon

I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

— Laura Vandervoort

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

— Julie Delpy

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

— Beyonce Knowles

“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.”

— Nichole McElhaney

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

— Geraldine Ferraro

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

— Marlo Thomas

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new…

— Andrea Dworkin

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying…

— Brittney Griner

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything.…

— Marjane Satrapi

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's…

— Bell Hooks

“I mean, I’m not not a feminist. I mean, I believe I’m a human before I’m a woman.” You say this because…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as…

— Mary Daly

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want…

— Jessica Valenti

“This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I…

— Christy Leigh Stewart

There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still…

— Christine and the Queens

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or…

— Andrew Denton

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where…

— Maggie Nelson

“Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced…

— Nenia Campbell

The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And…

— Carolyn Maloney

I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a…

— Tavi Gevinson

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

— Dale Spender

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

— Camille Paglia

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

— Reshma Saujani

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

— Camille Paglia

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

— Shruti Haasan

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

— Carine Roitfeld

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

— Buchi Emecheta

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

— Margaret Trudeau

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the…

— Beyonce Knowles

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute

We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.

— Lauren Mayberry

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

— Agnes Varda

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

— Constance Baker Motley

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

— Diane von Furstenberg

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

— Susannah Grant

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

— Kate Atkinson