Kate Atkinson Quotes

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

Kate Atkinson

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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

• 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

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

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

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Home
  • Word
  • Nicest

• More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Kids
  • More
  • Word

• My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Word
  • Sunday

• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick
  • Word
  • Last
  • Sarcasm

• 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 love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Opinion
  • Word
  • Through

• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Convince
  • Awkward
  • Hype

• 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

• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Poverty

• Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Word
  • Anything
  • Mouth

• I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Literature

• I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Girl
  • Natural

• When you understand your customer base, you have to provide them with what they want.

  

  Geisha Williams

• I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Jobs
  • Invest

• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism