Feminist Quotes

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.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

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.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

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

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

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

To be a feminist is to be alive.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

I'm not a feminist at all.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

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