“Truth is, there comes a time when turning a new page in your life is the most liberating and empowering feeling you… — Emma Mildon 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
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 Copy Share Image
There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we're relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the… — Mike Adams Copy Share Image
I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she’s… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Of course women are sexual objects; so are men. Even while I was hugging that book of feminist rhetoric to my chest,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
That's what's always been such a curious thing to me about feminism. They never lost any power. However, when you start talking… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“That word can be very extreme… But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you… — Beyoncé Knowles Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
If you are born a female and live as one, you can't deny your connection to feminism. I think if you are… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
![“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material…” quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ab/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_being-a-woman_irony-has-everything-to-do-with-what-til_1284033.jpg)
