The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I mean, I’m not not a feminist. I mean, I believe I’m a human before I’m a woman.” You say this because… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who… — Danielle Henderson Copy Share Image
As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me,… — Yuna Copy Share Image
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying… — Brittney Griner Copy Share Image
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“The most impressive naval career of all the female sailors is that of William Brown, a black woman who spent at least… — David Cordingly Copy Share Image
Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
“But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
I think anyone who wants the social, political and economic equality for women can call themselves a feminist. It does get trickier,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“She strode forward, steeling her tune against the terrible cries which threatened to tear her emotions from her and leave her half-conscious.… — Steven Raaymakers Copy Share Image
I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
![“You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who say really anti-feminist things, [and] other people who think they're one way but act another.” quote by Danielle Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/35e/danielle-henderson-64386_anti-feminist_you-can-t-really-ever-know-what-someone_3165185.jpg)
![“No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need balance. With myself, I'm very in touch with my masculine side. And I'm 50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine, same as I…” quote by Shailene Woodley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc2/shailene-woodley-4258_balance_no-i-m-not-a-feminist-because-i-love-men_801825.jpg)
![“We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five…” quote by Nora Ephron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad4/nora-ephron-1217_ambitious_we-have-a-game-we-play-when-we-re-waitin_586047.jpg)
