Feminist Quotes

• Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Feminist
  • Teeth
  • Advancing

• 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
  • Feminist
  • Refuse
  • Pessimism

• 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

• To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

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

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Feminist

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Enough
  • Ugly
  • Feminist

• My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Book
  • Dad
  • Reading

• It's not my place to tell anyone what kind of feminist she should be.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • She
  • 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

• Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• 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
  • Feminist

• As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

  

  Caroline Dries
  • Characters
  • Relationships
  • Defined

• The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Black
  • Struggle

• My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Feminist

• 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'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Women
  • Career
  • Daughter

• I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Father
  • 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'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

  

  Bob Hoskins
  • Feminist

• To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

  

  Suzanne Vega
  • Feminist
  • Human Rights
  • Advocate

• You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Men
  • Father
  • Pain

• To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Values
  • Feminist
  • Transform

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