Feminist Quotes

• I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Mean
  • Appreciate
  • Filmmaker

• You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

  

  Susannah Grant
  • Feminist
  • Carry
  • Card

• I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable. You should be labeled if you're f-cking crazy.

  

  Michael Che
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Rational

• There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Different
  • Feminist

• I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Feminist
  • Daughters
  • Protects

• We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Job
  • Way
  • Need

• I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Book
  • Feminist

• I am a feminist who loves men.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Men
  • Feminist
  • Loves

• I know there's a part of the feminist world that is like, "Hey, screw 'em, we'll do our own thing over here," and I can see there's a value in that. But a kind of nudgy part of me thinks: No. I want access, and I want my daughters to have access to the exact same thing, because we all know there's no such thing as separate but equal.

  

  Erin Belieu
  • Thinking
  • Daughter
  • Equal

• I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Women
  • Play
  • Feminist

• I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Girl
  • Band
  • Calling

• Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Complicated

• It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word "feminist!

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Feminist
  • Eight
  • Miley

• I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Perfect
  • Working
  • Feminist

• I am most certainly a feminist.

  

  Brenda Brathwaite
  • Feminist

• I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Need
  • I Love
  • Feminist

• Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Projects
  • Empires
  • Critique

• Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

  

  Delia Sherman
  • Fairy
  • Tend
  • Greedy

• The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism.

  

  Nancy Hartsock
  • Feminist
  • Materialism
  • Standpoint

• There's no such thing as a feminist - just women who pay for their own breast implants.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Women
  • Feminist
  • Breast Implants

• I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Women

• America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.

  

  Milo Yiannopoulos
  • People
  • Country
  • Attention

• Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Society
  • Feminist
  • Bores

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