Feminist Quotes · Page 18

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

— Camille Paglia

We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.

— Lauren Mayberry

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

— Bonnie Greer

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

— Julie Burchill

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

— Evelyn Cunningham

Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.

— Zara Larsson

“I’m not a fucking secretary. I didn’t become a feminist so I could end up tapping out correspondence”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

— Jessica Lange

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed…

— Sol LeWitt

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred…

— Sarah Silverman

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in…

— Lotte Verbeek

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up…

— James Hillman

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete…

— Emilie Autumn

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself…

— Barbara Kruger

I mean, I don't want to come down on call-out culture, because I guess it has its place, but there was an…

— Tom Burke

Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The…

— Doris Lessing

Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't…

— Warren Farrell

“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social…

— Julie Zeilinger

I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family…

— Sylvia Fraser

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at…

— Betty Friedan

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…

— Ani DiFranco

“It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are…of being alive. Scared…

— Kathleen Hanna

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

— Rita Ora

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the…

— Olivia Wilde

I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

— Katie Taylor

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

— Gloria Steinem

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

— Camille Paglia

“The saying ‘the future is female’ is wrong. The truth is, ‘the future is feminine.’ There is a difference.”

— Emma Mildon

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

— Beyonce Knowles

“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.”

— Nichole McElhaney

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

— Geraldine Ferraro

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

— Marlo Thomas

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

— Julie Delpy

I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

— Laura Vandervoort

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

— Jessica Valenti

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

— Mary Daly

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

— Jo Brand