Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me.” — Alicen Grey Copy Share Image
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil.” — Mae Crawford Copy Share Image
What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“Powerful women don’t need another pair of yoga pants, we need a mic.” — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
“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
The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share Image
There is an amazing feminist writer called Lindy West; she wrote a very nice piece for The New York Times. She wrote… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image