Feminist Quotes

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.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

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

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.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

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.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

I'm not a feminist at all.

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

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.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

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.

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.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

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.

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.

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.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.