Feminist Quotes

• 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
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Independent

• 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
  • People
  • Political
  • Perspective

• 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.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• 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
  • Up
  • She
  • Girl

• 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
  • Mom
  • Christian
  • Feminist

• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • World
  • Bad
  • Hate

• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • Work
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Girl
  • Star
  • Inspiring

• There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Doubt
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Marriage
  • Ruined
  • Indoctrination

• You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Feminist

• 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
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Perspective
  • View

• Feminists had an astoundingly naive view of the mutual exclusiveness of sex and aggression, which, Freud demonstrates, are fused in the amoral unconscious, as revealed to us through dreams. That rape is simply what used to be called 'unbridled lust,' like gluttony a sin of insufficient self-restraint, seems to be beyond the feminist ken.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex
  • Feminist
  • Lust

• When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• 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
  • People
  • Important
  • Taken

• 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
  • Believe
  • Men
  • American

• My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Women
  • Feminist

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• The way the play was written originally is that in the end Henry Higgins and Eliza separate because they aren't compatible because of Eliza's feminist views. They wanted a happier ending for the musical.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Feminist
  • Views
  • Henry Higgins

• I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • inspirational
  • Speak

• I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • True
  • Reading

• Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Myself
  • Genius
  • Say

• I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Needs
  • Feminism
  • Catchy

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