Feminist Quotes
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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
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The music that I will continue to make will certainly draw upon those experiences of being a loner, of being an emo goth kid, of being a New York City aficionado, of being a witch, a feminist, a brown radical woman.
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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 comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.
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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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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.
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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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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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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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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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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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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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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
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There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.
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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'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
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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.
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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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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.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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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.
