Feminist Quotes
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In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
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'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 -
There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
Caitlin Moran -
The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.
Utah Phillips -
I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
Wendy E. Long -
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
Marlo Thomas -
I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
Anushka Sharma
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My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Daphne Zuniga -
I have always thought of myself as someone for equal rights. I don't mind being called a feminist, and I get really upset when female celebrities resist the title as if it's a bad thing, because it's a very good thing.
Marcia Clark -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
Tavi Gevinson
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Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
Tavi Gevinson -
My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
Pam Grier -
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 -
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
Betty Dodson -
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Tammy Bruce -
I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.
Daria Werbowy
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We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
Elizabeth Janeway -
'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 -
It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Cameron Russell