Feminist Quotes
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I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.
Zara Larsson
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I consider myself a rampant feminist.
Cindy Gallop
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I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.
Katie Taylor
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I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.
Paulina Porizkova
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I'm an independent woman and a feminist.
Kriti Sanon
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For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.
Mary Daly
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I'm not a feminist.
Marge Simon
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My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
Mark Bradford
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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
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Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.
Maxine Peake
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I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
Cindy Gallop
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I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.
Ariel Levy
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Patti Smith
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This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
John Callahan
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I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.
Busy Philipps
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I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.
Marina and the Diamonds
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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
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To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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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
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
Elizabeth Moon
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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
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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