Feminist Quotes · Page 24

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

— Kenny Loggins

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

— Jessica Valenti

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Hillary Clinton represents staunch feminists, she represents the new era of feminists.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Feminism? It might change society, but it will certainly not change the man.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

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

— Lauren Mayberry

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

— Camille Paglia

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

— Reshma Saujani

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against…

— Eleanor Smeal

“She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I don't get why men feel insecure when they meet a confident woman! As for me, I'd feel much more secure if…

— Abhijit Naskar

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and…

— Maria Cantwell

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to…

— Taylor Swift

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in…

— Marina Abramovic

I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice,…

— Marjorie Liu

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a…

— Camille Paglia

I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex…

— Judith Butler

This is the burgeoning days of feminism. This is when the militant feminists are the feminism hormones are raging. They are excited.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is…

— Louise Mensch

The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did…

— R. C. Sproul

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the…

— Arundhati Roy

I don't know if I'm a feminist, as much as I really love being a woman and I'm proud to be a…

— Macy Gray

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here…

— Ani DiFranco

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

— Buchi Emecheta

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

— Margaret Trudeau

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the…

— Beyonce Knowles

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

— Shruti Haasan

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

— Carine Roitfeld

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

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Nichole McElhaney

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

— Marlo Thomas

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

— Beyonce Knowles

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

— Emma Mildon

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

— Camille Paglia

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Katie Taylor