Culture Quote by Alison Bechdel

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

— Tina Brown

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist…

— Audre Lorde

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men…

— Florence King

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

— Roxane Gay

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up.…

— Nina Tassler

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

— Geri Halliwell

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ".…

— Judith Butler

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream…

— Neil Tennant

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

— Gloria Steinem

The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking…

— Andi Zeisler

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

— Simone de Beauvoir