Feminist Quotes · Page 17

I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our…

— Petra Collins

I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist,…

— Jon Krakauer

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black…

— Barbara Smith

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

— Hugh Hefner

Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.

— Roxane Gay

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too…

— Beyonce Knowles

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard…

— Heather Donahue

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So…

— Gloria Steinem

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United…

— Susan B. Anthony

The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting…

— Nancy Hartsock

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider…

— Marti Noxon

I don't try to be feminist. I just am. It's innately inside me. I have no interest in trying to be the…

— Amy Schumer

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of…

— Isabel Allende

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am…

— Sonam Kapoor

“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I…

— Abhijit Naskar

The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil…

— Rory Kennedy

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is…

— Andrea Dworkin

With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with…

— Crystal Eastman

I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get…

— Phyllis Schlafly

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy…

— Michel Onfray

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

— Melanie Griffith

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

— Jessica Valenti

No one's more feminist than me, but you can still be smart, bright, and attractive.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

— Christine Gregoire

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

— Natalie Dormer

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything,

— Miley Cyrus

I don't think that you have to always present as angry, masculine, aggressive to be a feminist.

— Zoe Buckman

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

— Brit Marling

Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…

— Jessica Valenti

I keep saying this: If you're not a feminist, you're a bad person.

— Kalki Koechlin

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

— Megan Ganz

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

— Dalai Lama

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

— Vera Farmiga

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.”

— Mindy Kaling

“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is…

— Abhijit Naskar

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

— Kimberly Guilfoyle