Feminist Quotes · Page 14

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

— A. S. Byatt

We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

— Beyonce Knowles

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less…

— Roxane Gay

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

— David Bailey

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

— Robert Barry

I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.

— Bel Powley

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

— Christie Hefner

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as…

— Karen DeCrow

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement…

— Paulo Freire

“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of…

— Abhijit Naskar

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating,…

— Dennis Prager

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman…

— Caitlin Moran

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements…

— Andi Zeisler

It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but…

— Andi Zeisler

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that…

— Marissa Mayer

“We’re more than borrowed titles, more than shadows wearing rings – we are roots of all survival, we are breath in everything.…

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that…

— Kathleen Hanna

I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti’s future, and as long as I know that women…

— Sarah Bessey

“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I…

— Roxane Gay

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly…

— Alice Munro

A feminist is a person who wants equal things for men and women, and I definitely believe in that. This doesn't mean…

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

— John Legend

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

— Beyonce Knowles

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

— Judith Martin

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

— Olympia Dukakis

I love the way Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made the first-ever feminist Golden Globes.

— Phoebe Fox

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

— Yasmine Bleeth

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

— Alice von Hildebrand

“Anyhow, she didn't care, that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”

— Gayle Forman

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect…

— Pam Grier

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

— Elizabeth May

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

— Crystal Eastman

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

— Marilyn French

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

— Rudy Giuliani

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go…

— Rashida Jones

“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to…

— Caroline George