Feminist Quotes · Page 15

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

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

— Anne Hathaway

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

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

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

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Let us remind our poor men folk in deed and song: There are two types of men in this womanly world: Those…

— Philip Strax

I never really considered myself much of a feminist until I left Wall Street. I did all the right things - such…

— Sallie Krawcheck

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine…

— Alison Pill

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a…

— Octavia E. Butler

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

— Kate Nash

“Oh,right.Like he's been in a monestary copying scripture for the last ten years." Kate squared her shoulders, her feminist flag waving high.…

— Nora Roberts

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of…

— Robin Morgan

Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt…

— Kathleen Hanna

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an…

— Andrea Dworkin

Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a certain…

— Anthony Joshua

An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as…

— Clare Wright

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists…

— Naomi Wolf

When I first read Helen Weinzweig's 'Basic Black with Pearls' several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens…

— Sarah Weinman

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do…

— Caitlin Moran

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

— Christie Hefner

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

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

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

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

— Phoebe Fox

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

— Roxane Gay

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

— Caitlin Moran

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world

— Gary Bauer