Feminist Quotes
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I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.
Christina Hendricks -
If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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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 -
I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone.
Bobbie Ann Mason -
I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
Justin Cathal Geever Anti-Flag -
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
Warren Farrell -
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
James Hillman
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He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.
Amber Heard -
If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?
Margaret Cho -
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly -
My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
Leila Janah -
What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.
Kelly Brook -
The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian.
Caitlin Moran -
I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
Camille Paglia -
For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!
Cobie Smulders
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The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
Mayim Bialik -
For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.
Mary Daly -
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
Rita Mae Brown -
It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.
Gemma Arterton