Feminist Quotes
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
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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.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
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I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
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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.
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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.
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My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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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.
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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.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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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.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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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.
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Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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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.'
