Feminism Quote by Roxane Gay

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists…

— Roxane Gay

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and…

— Andrea Dworkin

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women…

— Rosalind Coward

“Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as part of…

— Roxane Gay

“Oddly, I had never thought of myself as a feminist. I had been denounced by certain radical feminist collectives as a ‘lackey’ for men.…

— Elaine Brown

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Let's reclaim them. We can share the simple…

— bell hooks

“I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for equality, the…

— Winifred Holtby

“The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.”

— Aysha Taryam

“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its…

— Dale Spender

“Feminism is about despising an idea. And the idea is that women are unequal to men. It is that they deserve or should expect…

— Jane Caro

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I…

— Kathleen Hanna