Feminist Quotes · Page 12

I spent seven seasons on 'Mad Men,' playing what became considered a very feminist character.

— Elisabeth Moss

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better…

— Anna Quindlen

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of…

— Julie Burchill

I just happen to be a woman and involved in sport, but that doesn't necessarily make me a feminist.

— Katie Taylor

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

— Anonymous

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really…

— Alessia Cara

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

— Gail Sheehy

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some…

— Jessica Valenti

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting…

— Neil LaBute

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place…

— Faith Ringgold

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her…

— Mignon McLaughlin

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I…

— June Jordan

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994]…

— Ishmael Reed

I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist…

— Nancy Spero

The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you…

— Phyllis Schlafly

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of…

— Cornelia Parker

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears…

— Nivedita Menon

Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…

— Michael Hardt

There is an amazing feminist writer called Lindy West; she wrote a very nice piece for The New York Times. She wrote…

— Richa Chadha

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

— Park Chan-wook

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

— Natalie Dormer

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

— Lena Dunham

I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.

— Marcia Clark

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

— Robin Morgan

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

— Diane Wilson

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

— Phyllis Schlafly

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

— Anonymous

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

— Andrea Dworkin

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I'm sure the hard-core feminist will say we're trapped, but I think viewers see how empowered we are.

— Bridget Marquardt

“A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.”

— George Egerton

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

— Homer

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

— Tammy Bruce

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

— Nick Cave