Feminist Quotes
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I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
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If I feel something, it's how I feel. I never say, 'I feel this way, so you should feel that way.' Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I just am who I am. But, yeah. I think you would call me a feminist.
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Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.
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I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.
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When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'
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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
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It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.'
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I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
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My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.
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We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.
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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.
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I'm not a feminist at all.
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You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
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I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.
