Active Quote by Doris Lessing

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top.…

— Betty Friedan

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

— Hugh Hefner

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to…

— Allyson Felix

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every…

— Carla Bruni

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel…

— Amy Poehler

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

— Doris Lessing

“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.”

— C. N. Lester

“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones