Feminist Quotes

• The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • She
  • Mom
  • English

• 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
  • Men
  • Feminist

• 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
  • Work
  • Different
  • Women

• What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Women
  • Always
  • Feminists

• 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
  • Women
  • Feminist
  • Empowering

• He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Father
  • Hands
  • Courses

• It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

  

  Elizabeth Joan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Feminist

• On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Business
  • Sex

• 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
  • Feminist

• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Perfect

• With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mind
  • Motivated
  • Ethics

• No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Feminist

• I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Feminist
  • Capitalism
  • Movements

• I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Moving
  • Feminist

• Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Body
  • Feminist
  • Temperature

• 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
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

  

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
  • Work
  • Ethics
  • Morals

• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Angry

• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Power
  • Courage
  • Revolution

• 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
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Sex

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