Feminist Quotes · Page 12

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

— Kathy Lette

As a feminist, I don't like the notion that women have to look a certain way: I think confidence is the most…

— Rebecca Front

A feminist jumps out of a manhole - oh, and she didn't like that.

— Bill Bailey

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

— Laura Schlessinger

“Roxane Gay casts a lens on the nuances of feminism in Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, August.)”

— Anonymous

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

— Sonia Rykiel

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

— Robert Webb

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind…

— J. F. Lawton

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all…

— Deborah Kampmeier

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things…

— Emma Watson

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal.…

— Caitlin Moran

“A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step.…

— Sara Ahmed

“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role…

— Miya Yamanouchi

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening.…

— Mike Adams

I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so…

— Eve Ensler

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there…

— Bell Hooks

On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,…

— Andrea Dworkin

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive -…

— Neri Oxman

It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean…

— Laura Bates

A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If…

— Barbara Crossette

At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to.…

— Olivia Arthur

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

“She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.”

— Hillary Jordan

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want…

— Mayim Bialik

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

— Les Dawson

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

— Kate Atkinson

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

— Rachel Cusk

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gary Bauer

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can…

— Gloria Steinem

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

— Roxane Gay

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

— Caitlin Moran

I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

— Robin Morgan

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.

— Twinkle Khanna