Feminist Quotes · Page 14

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

— Hanna Rosin

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

— Catherine Marshall

“Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.”

— Aysha Taryam

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

— Caitlin Moran

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in…

— Phyllis Schlafly

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

— Bonnie Greer

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so…

— Teri Gender Bender

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got…

— Patti Smith

“A woman of battle cannot take the same risks as a woman of the fields or a woman of the town. One…

— Jordan MacLean

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to…

— Annie Lennox

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that…

— Jane Fonda

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

— Liz Stanley

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a…

— Karyn Kusama

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is…

— Louise Mensch

This is the burgeoning days of feminism. This is when the militant feminists are the feminism hormones are raging. They are excited.…

— Rush Limbaugh

The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did…

— R. C. Sproul

I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex…

— Judith Butler

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a…

— Camille Paglia

The feminists are trying to tell women that there is really no difference between them and men. Just as men can be…

— Phyllis Schlafly

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or…

— Andrew Denton

There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so…

— Kathleen Hanna

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

— Fay Weldon

I'm a feminist, so it's just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.

— Maggie Rogers

I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.

— Martha Shelley

I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I…

— Frankie Shaw

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

— Sally Miller Gearhart

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

— Kathleen Hanna

“I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and…

— C.J. Redwine

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

— Alley Mills

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

— Mina Loy

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

— Rush Limbaugh

Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.

— Rush Limbaugh

“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Robert Webb

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

— Rachel Cusk

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

— Mary Wortley Montagu