Feminist Quotes
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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.
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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.
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No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.
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I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
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It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?
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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.
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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.
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He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
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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!
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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
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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.
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What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
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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.
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There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
