Feminist Quotes · Page 13

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

— Jill Scott

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

— Arundhati Roy

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

— Jessica Pare

“I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.”

— C.J. Redwine

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

— Gloria Steinem

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your…

— Lady Gaga

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are…

— Bell Hooks

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us…

— Camille Paglia

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity,…

— Kathy Najimy

Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

— Mary Daly

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such…

— Teresa de Lauretis

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of…

— Orson Bean

People find it difficult to call Lars' movies feminist. But they're humanist movies because they show a woman going through life and…

— Stacy Martin

..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in…

— Susan J. Douglas

I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the…

— Julie Zeilinger

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the…

— Emily Oster

“To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This…

— Sara Ahmed

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

— Pam Grier

“Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.”

— Hunter Avallone

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

— Kathleen Hanna

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing…

— Roxane Gay

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

— Susan Faludi

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

— Dennis Prager

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

— Alanis Morissette

I would never have seen myself as a gung-ho feminist growing up; my mum was quite scathing of bra-burners and things.

— Cathy Newman

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

— Shonda Rhimes

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

— Anne Hathaway

To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

— Andrea Dworkin

“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

— Euripides

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

— Michelle Stuart

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

— Terry Crews

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

— Carolyn R. Dimmick

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

— Emma Watson