Feminist Quotes

• Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
  • Women
  • Speaking
  • Statement

• Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we should have the same rights as men.

  

  Evie Wyld
  • Feels
  • Should
  • Rights

• The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Hate
  • College

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

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Feminist
  • Puritan

• 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

• In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • People
  • Vision
  • Sex

• There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Girl
  • Danger
  • 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

• How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Feminist

• About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Problem
  • Hunger
  • Bodies

• In the industry, I am judged by what I wear. If I want to be taken seriously, I have to hire a team of stylists. It's an occupational hazard. But it's not as though I am any less of a feminist.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Team
  • Industry
  • Judged

• Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Would Be

• If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

  

  Crystal Eastman
  • Baby
  • Feminist

• Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Baby
  • Model
  • Batman

• My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.

  

  Mona Eltahawy
  • Found
  • Traveled
  • Pulling

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

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • Life
  • Feminist

• If you were really a feminist, you'd support housewives. You'd see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!

  

  Gavin McInnes
  • Feminist
  • Wasting Time
  • Housewives

• My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Feminist

• It's not always easy being a full-time feminist - especially as a young woman - when you're constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I'm on the defense all the time.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Time
  • Feminist

• Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Belief
  • Feminist
  • Sexuality

• I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Smart

• Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Feminist

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