You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
Whenever I talk about being a feminist or speaking out for equality, it's also about the idea that men are treated with… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
“When The Woman is King (Sonnet) When the woman is king, no mother goes without leave, no dreamer goes without choice, no… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she’s… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the… — Mike Adams Copy Share Image
Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Of course women are sexual objects; so are men. Even while I was hugging that book of feminist rhetoric to my chest,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
That's what's always been such a curious thing to me about feminism. They never lost any power. However, when you start talking… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
"Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we're relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you!… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I would say any film can be called feminist that has female characters who have agency in their life, that are in… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Sir, — Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point;… — Joanna Bourke Copy Share Image
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
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