Feminist Quotes · Page 23

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

— Vera Farmiga

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

— Dalai Lama

I keep saying this: If you're not a feminist, you're a bad person.

— Kalki Koechlin

Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…

— Jessica Valenti

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

— Megan Ganz

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.”

— Mindy Kaling

“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is…

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

— Melanie Griffith

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the…

— Andrea Dworkin

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is…

— Marielle Heller

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

— Marvin Olasky

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if…

— Jessica Valenti

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the…

— Anonymous

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes…

— Sigmund Freud

My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her…

— Katie Piper

I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two…

— Theodore Dalrymple

One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That…

— Lloyd Billingsley

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question…

— Jessica Valenti

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the…

— Eva Figes

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight…

— Erica Jong

When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up…

— Kathleen Hanna

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,…

— Barbra Streisand

Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer.…

— Jennifer Shahade

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

— Hugh Hefner

Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.

— Roxane Gay

I don't think that you have to always present as angry, masculine, aggressive to be a feminist.

— Zoe Buckman

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything,

— Miley Cyrus

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

— Brit Marling

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

— Christine Gregoire

No one's more feminist than me, but you can still be smart, bright, and attractive.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

— Jessica Valenti

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

— Natalie Dormer

I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist,…

— Jon Krakauer

I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our…

— Petra Collins

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black…

— Barbara Smith

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I realized that, as a woman, you have an obligation to be a feminist.

— Sadie Sink