Feminist Quotes · Page 19

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

— Wyndham Lewis

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

— Catharine MacKinnon

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

— Fay Weldon

I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.

— Nicola Adams

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist…

— Sarah Pinborough

I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.

— Bhumi Pednekar

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

— Maya Angelou

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

— Rei Kawakubo

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants.…

— Julie Burchill

The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

— Linda Gordon

“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men…

— Tina Fey

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but…

— Marlo Thomas

The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a…

— Petra Collins

If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that…

— Margaret Atwood

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll…

— Jessica Valenti

“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And…

— Abhijit Naskar

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an…

— Andrea Dworkin

An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as…

— Clare Wright

Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a certain…

— Anthony Joshua

As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to…

— Amandla Stenberg

“Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion…

— Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

— Joan Jett

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate…

— Liz Phair

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

— Bertha Knight Landes

“Maybe the princess could save herself." "That sounds like a pretty good story too.”

— Marissa Meyer

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

— Mary Daly

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

— Jessica Valenti

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a…

— Cindy Gallop

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

— Jo Brand

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

— Rasika Dugal

“Know that everything's gonna be alright when a woman takes charge.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

— Marianne Williamson

There's no such thing as a feminist - just women who pay for their own breast implants.

— Bonnie McFarlane

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

— Grace Kelly

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

— Ronee Blakley

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

— Frances McDormand

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

— Naomi Wolf