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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that… — Adrienne Rich
To be a feminist is to be alive — Margaret Cho
WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES… — Emma Watson
BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS. — Emma Watson
I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty. — Olivia Wilde
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues. — Charlotte Bunch
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights... — Aziz Ansari
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be. — Phyllis Schlafly
I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that… — Jerry Falwell
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes… — Unknown Author
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal… — Ellen Page
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. — Malala Yousafzai
We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that… — Sarah Silverman
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough. — Zaha Hadid
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can… — Tavi Gevinson
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under… — Sarah Silverman
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. — Marlo Thomas
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. — Unknown Author
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the… — Julia Ward Howe
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. — Unknown Author
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them… — Joan Baez
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the… — Robert Muller

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