Feminist Quotes · Page 16

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can…

— Gloria Steinem

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.

— Twinkle Khanna

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

— Robin Morgan

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

“In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve…

— Malebo Sephodi

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries…

— Jessica Valenti

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract…

— Irena Klepfisz

I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and…

— Niki Caro

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements…

— Noam Chomsky

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama…

— Deena Metzger

“Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what…

— Sara Ahmed

“She strode forward, steeling her tune against the terrible cries which threatened to tear her emotions from her and leave her half-conscious.…

— Steven Raaymakers

“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced…

— Naomi Wolf

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live…

— Bell Hooks

I think anyone who wants the social, political and economic equality for women can call themselves a feminist. It does get trickier,…

— Jessica Valenti

Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful…

— Mindy Kaling

To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

“What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood…

— Toni Morrison

Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Arundhati Roy

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

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

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

— Nancy Hartsock

I realized that, as a woman, you have an obligation to be a feminist.

— Sadie Sink

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

— Margaret Sanger

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

— Caitlin Moran

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

— Marina Abramovic

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and…

— Jane Rule