Feminist Quotes
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I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.
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We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.
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I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
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Absolutely, but let me qualify that- I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify that a little bit more. I was an English major, so break it down: -ist means one who celebrates. As a feminist, I celebrate my femininity.
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Every woman, whether or not they're comfortable with the term 'feminist,' probably wants to be equal to men, and that is fundamentally what feminism is about.
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I am more feminist than feminists.
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People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
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If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...
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The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
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I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.
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I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.
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What troubles me about the 'hostile workplace' category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
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I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.
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I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
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It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.
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I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt.
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Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
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It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
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He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
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Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
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I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
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I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.
