Feminist Quotes
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My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.
Mike Cernovich
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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?
Elizabeth Joan Smith
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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
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
Zara Larsson
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When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
Chantal Akerman
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
Emma Watson
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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.
Jessica Valenti
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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
Mary Beth Patterson
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When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Camille Paglia
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Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.
Amy Poehler
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There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.
Marlo Thomas
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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.
Caitlin Moran
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I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.
Elif Safak
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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.
Mary Beth Patterson
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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 remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at some point would say, 'So... would you consider this a feminist movie?' People are worried that it's a taboo thing, so I took great relish in saying, 'Yes, I would. Write that, yes.'
Geena Davis
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No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.
Jami Attenberg
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I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
Steven Tyler
Aerosmith
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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
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Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
Louise Mensch
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly
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Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
