Feminist Quotes

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Negative

• I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Remember
  • Think

• You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Fighting

• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Structure

• There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Thinking
  • Challenge
  • Living

• The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Hand
  • Feminist

• The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

  

  Betty Dodson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Feminist

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

  

  Daria Werbowy
  • Career
  • Intelligent
  • Feminist

• I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Done
  • Job

• Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Music
  • Organization
  • Feminist

• Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women's movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband's career.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Women
  • She
  • Career

• I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Husband
  • Catholic
  • Vengeance

• Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Culture
  • Present
  • Grandmother

• People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Feminist

• If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Up
  • Women
  • Free

• People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • Great

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