Consciousness Quote by Ayelet Waldman

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

— Joss Whedon

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was…

— Amanda de Cadenet

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

— Laura Schlessinger

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

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

— David Bailey

Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this…

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Roxane Gay

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made…

— Emma Watson

My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were…

— Kathleen Hanna

I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before I identified…

— Julie Zeilinger

I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of…

— Eve Ensler

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

— Kathleen Hanna