Feminist Quotes

• I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn't do something.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Up
  • Single
  • Mom

• I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Insecure

• Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

  

  Wendy McElroy
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Freedom

• I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Feminist

• No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

  

  William Ruckelshaus
  • Should
  • Feminist

• I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • People
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • inspirational
  • Motivational
  • Glory

• All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Quality
  • Existence
  • Feminist

• My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • Life
  • Feminist

• Personally, I would like to see the feminist movement described as a hate movement, so that we can then ban them from the government.

  

  Erin Pizzey
  • Hate
  • Movement
  • Described

• I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.

  

  Nicole Holofcener
  • Think
  • Political
  • Feminist

• I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Internet
  • Feminist

• If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Job
  • True
  • Small

• I'm going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the 'f-word' scared me. People would ask me if I was a feminist, and I didn't know how to respond. The word seemed to put guys off, but now I realise, who cares?

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Needs

• People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate information and share resources, especially via social media.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Information
  • Media
  • Feminist

• Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Feminist
  • Puritan

• The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Logic

• The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Goal
  • Feminist
  • Spirituality

• I assume that most people’s default setting is feminist, until they do or say something that makes me think otherwise.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Feminist
  • People's default

• Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Feminist

• The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Success

• I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Up
  • Women
  • Feminist

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