Feminist Quotes · Page 11

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...

— Catharine MacKinnon

“She thought she was a feminist. She was only bad tempered.”

— Hari Kunzru

All men are rapists and that's all they are

— Marilyn French

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

— Brian Azzarello

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

— John Callahan

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

— Caitlin Moran

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.

— Kim Cattrall

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

— Zaha Hadid

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

— Crystal Eastman

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

— Elizabeth May

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect…

— Pam Grier

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

— Betty Friedan

“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to…

— Caroline George

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

— Isabel Allende

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

— Rudy Giuliani

No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have…

— Simone de Beauvoir

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in…

— Isabel Allende

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all.…

— Amy Poehler

I am a feminist. And I'm so glad that Lena Dunham exists, because she is one too, and she's quite vocal about…

— Claire Danes

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an…

— Deborah Ellis

I've always been a proud feminist and I think it's clear that climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity - it…

— Raye

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate…

— Barbara Kruger

I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for…

— Kim Gordon

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse…

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I…

— Jessica Valenti

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be…

— Diane von Furstenberg

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in…

— John Legend

“Women are these wonderful mysteries and they excite me on all kinds of levels. Their power over us is, I think, often…

— Clive Barker

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she…

— Bettany Hughes

I actually felt like college was a much better and more comfortable environment for me than high school was. I think that…

— Julie Zeilinger

I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.

— Marin Alsop

I don't like that word: feminist.

— Megyn Kelly

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

— Hugh Hefner

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

— Imelda May

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

— Marilyn French

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

— Rashida Jones

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

— Romola Garai