Feminist Quotes

• Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Angry
  • Feminist

• As for the label "Feminist," if you're going to call yourself a feminist and you're not going to stand up to and denounce these hateful people who have done, and are still doing, so much damage, then you are a part of the problem.

  

  Erin Pizzey
  • People
  • Hateful
  • Denounce

• I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Men
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• 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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Single

• Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

  

  bell hooks
  • Attention
  • Star
  • Feminist

• You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z.'

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Money
  • Beyonce
  • Jay-Z

• Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Feminist

• I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • College
  • Mean

• I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • People
  • Care
  • Projects

• I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Feminist

• I'm not a feminist.

  

  Marge Simon
  • Feminist

• I feel confused about what I'm supposed to be doing as a feminist because I do like fashion, and I do like magazines, too. I buy them on airplanes. I like seeing what hot trends are new this fall. It makes me feel very conflicted a lot of the time.

  

  Megan Amram
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Fall

• I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.

  

  Frankie Shaw
  • Work
  • Feminist

• Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Great
  • Men
  • Character

• 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

• I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've done so many offensive comedies, I'm now worn down to a little nub of... nub of an activist.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Done
  • Feminist

• I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Spring

• I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Feminist

• When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Wise
  • Independent
  • Feminist

• Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.

  

  Leslie Bibb
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Weird

• No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Feminist

• 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

• Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • She
  • Bad
  • Girl

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