Martha Stewart Quotes

I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

Martha Stewart

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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Explore

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • History
  • Realization

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

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Remember
  • Think

• I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Myself
  • See
  • Feminist

• I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Women
  • Want
  • Know

• I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Feminist
  • Lady
  • Rather

• I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Man

• The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • American
  • Think
  • Man

• I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Feminist

• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Life
  • Women
  • Dream

• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Woman

• Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at some point would say, 'So... would you consider this a feminist movie?' People are worried that it's a taboo thing, so I took great relish in saying, 'Yes, I would. Write that, yes.'

  

  Geena Davis
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • People
  • Jump

• I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Moving
  • Feminist

• I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Feminist