Top Feminism Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Feminism quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Camille Paglia
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
- Camille Paglia
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Image of Alice von Hildebrand
Feminism without femininity is a sham.
- Alice von Hildebrand
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Image of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Image of Tavi Gevinson
Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...
- Tavi Gevinson
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Image of Ti-Grace Atkinson
Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.
- Ti-Grace Atkinson
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Image of S. E. Cupp
Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.
- S. E. Cupp
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Image of Gina Torres
Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.
- Gina Torres
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Image of Sheila Rowbotham
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
- Sheila Rowbotham
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Image of Laura Mulvey
It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.
- Laura Mulvey
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Image of Ghada al-Samman
It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.
- Ghada al-Samman
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Image of Warren Farrell
Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
- Warren Farrell
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Image of Dave Sim
Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.
- Dave Sim
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Image of Marianne Faithfull
Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.
- Marianne Faithfull
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Image of Larry Flynt
I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.
- Larry Flynt
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Image of Harvey Mansfield
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.
- Harvey Mansfield
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Image of Anita Sarkeesian
I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.
- Anita Sarkeesian
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Image of Petra Collins
To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.
- Petra Collins
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Image of Bella Abzug
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
- Bella Abzug
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Image of Manju Kapur
Feminism is small revolutions, every day
- Manju Kapur
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Image of Geri Halliwell
For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.
- Geri Halliwell
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Image of Geri Halliwell
It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.
- Geri Halliwell
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Image of Jenny Hval
I'm very interested in the visual world because I'm also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into the most psychotic state of, like, "You are this one person, but you have to become another person to see these images."
- Jenny Hval
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Image of Mary Harron
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
- Mary Harron
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Image of Kathleen Hanna
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
- Kathleen Hanna
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Image of Katie Pavlich
Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.
- Katie Pavlich
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Image of Sandra Marie Schneiders
Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.
- Sandra Marie Schneiders
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Image of Denise Di Novi
There were a few before me, there was a generation that started a little bit before me of women producers and Sherry Lansing, she was the first woman studio president, and she was really inspiring to me. I was inspired by other women in other fields, I was an adolescent in the 70s with the second wave feminism, and I got very inspired by that and felt like, you know what, there's no reason why I can't do this.
- Denise Di Novi
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Image of Hilary Mantel
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
- Hilary Mantel
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Image of Ronee Blakley
Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.
- Ronee Blakley
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Image of Alison Assiter
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.
- Alison Assiter
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Image of Andi Zeisler
Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.
- Andi Zeisler
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Image of Vandana Shiva
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.
- Vandana Shiva
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Image of Dennis Prager
Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?
- Dennis Prager
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Image of Sylvia Plath
I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Libba Bray
Does my new feminism make me look fat?
- Libba Bray
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Dennis Miller
Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.
- Dennis Miller
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Image of John Stuart Mill
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Gloria Steinem
Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
- Gloria Steinem
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Image of Sandra Bernhard
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
- Sandra Bernhard
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Image of Robin Morgan
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
- Robin Morgan
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Camille Paglia
before feminism was, Paglia was!
- Camille Paglia
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Image of Sandra Bernhard
You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.
- Sandra Bernhard
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Image of Jessica Valenti
It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.
- Jessica Valenti
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Image of Gloria Steinem
Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.
- Gloria Steinem
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Image of Katha Pollitt
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times
- Katha Pollitt
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Image of Lily Allen
Why is there even a conversation about feminism?
- Lily Allen
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Image of Vivian Gornick
Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.
- Vivian Gornick
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