Feminism Quote by Jesse Andrews

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

— Hanna Rosin

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I…

— Norbert Leo Butz

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible…

— Bell Hooks

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith…

— Jane Fonda

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale…

— Carol P. Christ

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

— Karen Armstrong

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of…

— June Diane Raphael

I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it…

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without…

— Joan D. Chittister

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary…

— Faye Wattleton

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys…

— Israel Horovitz

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

— Vivian Gornick