Feminist Quotes · Page 27

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

— Betty Friedan

Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

— Sam Kinison

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall…

— Lily Tomlin

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time…

— Carl Bernstein

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

— Ani DiFranco

women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of…

— Sally Helgesen

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and…

— Cheryl Clarke

In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along…

— Murray Bookchin

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and…

— Jane Rule

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power…

— Bell Hooks

When I first read Helen Weinzweig's 'Basic Black with Pearls' several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens…

— Sarah Weinman

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

— Margaret Hoover

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can…

— Gloria Steinem

As a feminist you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we…

— Evie Wyld

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

— Laura Vandervoort

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,…

— E. O. Wilson

My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.

— Ali Smith

The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own…

— Valie Export

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

— Rei Kawakubo

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I…

— Diane Wakoski

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

— Andrea Dworkin

I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem…

— Maggie Nelson