Feminist Quotes · Page 16

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

— Mary Daly

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

— Emma Watson

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?

— Zooey Deschanel

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

— Sam Kinison

“Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!”

— Abhijit Naskar

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

— Cameron Russell

Beyonce is very outspoken on feminist issues. So I think that's good. That could be brought to the forefront more.

— Aretha Franklin

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as…

— Mary Daly

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want…

— Jessica Valenti

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants.…

— Julie Burchill

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but…

— Marlo Thomas

“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men…

— Tina Fey

You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who…

— Danielle Henderson

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And…

— Carolyn Maloney

I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a…

— Tavi Gevinson

“Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced…

— Nenia Campbell

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where…

— Maggie Nelson

The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female…

— Janice Raymond

I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American…

— Kola Boof

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some…

— Amy Poehler

I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

— Maxime Bernier

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

— Nora Ephron

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

— Audre Lorde

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

— Doris Lessing

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

— Edward Abbey

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

— Amy Winehouse

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

— Margaret Thatcher

I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body…

— Busy Philipps

I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.

— Mac Miller

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

— Warren Farrell

I think I am a feminist in that I believe in equal pay between men and women.

— Keeley Hazell

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

— Sonia Rykiel

To the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, you are no ally and you are no feminist.

— Annamie Paul

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

— Margaret Cho

We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.

— Elizabeth May