All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility. Many will… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel." I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who… — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you!… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I would say any film can be called feminist that has female characters who have agency in their life, that are in… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Sir, — Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point;… — Joanna Bourke Copy Share Image
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Both my parents were Democrats. My dad was definitely more of a fiscally conservative traditional Democrat. My mom was more of a… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
“The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a "con."...As it is considered treasonous to… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of… — Matthew Chapman Copy Share Image
“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
Sex workers are the last women police stand in to protect. Sex workers are the last people that room is made for… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist… — Marisa Meltzer Copy Share Image
Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get?… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
We've been growing our readership every month, and we're kind of like, where are they all coming from? This is wonderful! And… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I wouldn't advocate for a feminism that's buttoned-up and divorced of the messiness of our real lives. Your feelings are your feelings,… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
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