Feminist Quotes · Page 61

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a…

— Octavia E. Butler

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

— Malala Yousafzai

Men use the night to erase us.

— Andrea Dworkin

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

— Isabel Allende

“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

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader…

— Shirin Ebadi

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

— Betty Buckley

“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world…

— Abhijit Naskar

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the…

— Andrea Dworkin

“I have never felt oppressed by Liberian-women, or that their "womanism" is an intricacy. But find it quite fascinating that feminine, is,…

— Henry Johnson Jr

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.

— Susan Sontag

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go…

— Rashida Jones

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world

— Gary Bauer

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to…

— Bell Hooks

When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you…

— Caitlin Moran

We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50…

— Beyonce Knowles

I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe…

— Phyllis Schlafly

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

— Lena Dunham

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.

— Madeline Brewer

I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,…

— Kristina Schroder

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its…

— Madeleine Albright

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

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

— Marvin Olasky