The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who say, 'Yeah yeah, I'm a feminist,' and they're not, actually. I wouldn't want to throw… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. — Liz Stanley Copy Share Image
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work… — Willy Russell Copy Share Image
Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
As a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't want to come down on call-out culture, because I guess it has its place, but there was an… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
I think what happens sometimes is, unfortunately, it's a scary thing for men to admit that they want equality or even to… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in… — Lotte Verbeek Copy Share Image
“There are four key pillars holding you up that you can re-ground yourself to. Your responsibility. Your power. Your Compassion. And your… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
In 'UnREAL', for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, 'This show is about women who are not… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image