Feminist Quotes · Page 13

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

— Amy Lee

“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.”

— Fay Weldon

“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it -…

— Abhijit Naskar

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

— Natalie Portman

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

— bell hooks

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

— Betty Buckley

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children.…

— John Shelby Spong

The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life…

— Jennifer Baumgardner

I think that 'Gilmore Girls' did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that…

— Liza Weil

Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see…

— Donatella Versace

I want to reduce the stigma of the word 'feminism.' It's not about eliminating and excluding. You can be yourself and still…

— Zoe Buckman

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said,…

— Gillian Jacobs

Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they…

— Elif Safak

I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should…

— Maimouna Doucoure

In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along…

— Murray Bookchin

“Imagine this: Instead of waiting in her tower, Rapunzel slices off her long, golden hair with a carving knife, and then uses…

— Theappleppielifestyle

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for…

— Anna Quindlen

“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no…

— Dale Spender

I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of…

— Robin Morgan

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here…

— Ani DiFranco

I don't know if I'm a feminist, as much as I really love being a woman and I'm proud to be a…

— Macy Gray

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the…

— Arundhati Roy

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

— Michelle Stuart

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

— Andrea Dworkin

“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.”

— Mariam Khan

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same…

— Carla Bruni

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

— Rene Veaux

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

— Emma Watson

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

— Beyonce Knowles

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

— Trinny Woodall

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

— Shania Twain

One day I look forward to making dinner for my husband and children. I don't want to be a career feminist.

— Lisa Haydon

I'm a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word... but we need feminism in our country.

— Jwala Gutta

“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”

— Ruth Ozeki

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

— Patti Smith

I'm a massive feminist, but I think it's a little unfair on the other sex saying they're not in it to change…

— Jo Swinson

I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as…

— Dyllan McGee

Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing responsibility and increasing personal freedom.

— Margaret Hoover