Feminist Quotes

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

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.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

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

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

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

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

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

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.