Feminist Quotes
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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.
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The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
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The word 'feminist' is a word that discriminates, and I'm not into that. I don't think there has to be a separation in life in anything. [...] Labels are for other people to understand us, so for me, I know how I feel and I don't need to call myself a 'feminist' or 'not a feminist' because I know what my truth is.
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I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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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. '
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.
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I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
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The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
