Top Feminist Quotes Collection

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

Image of Susie Bright
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation
- Susie Bright
Collection: Feminist
Image of Caitlin Moran
We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
- Caitlin Moran
Collection: Feminist
Image of Carl Bernstein
Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.
- Carl Bernstein
Collection: Feminist
Image of Kathy Lette
Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.
- Kathy Lette
Collection: Feminist
Image of Virginia Woolf
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Feminist
Image of Katha Pollitt
For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.
- Katha Pollitt
Collection: Feminist
Image of Diane Wilson
The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.
- Diane Wilson
Collection: Feminist
Image of Julianne Moore
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
- Julianne Moore
Collection: Feminist
Image of Isabelle Holland
All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.
- Isabelle Holland
Collection: Feminist
Image of Alice Childress
Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
- Alice Childress
Collection: Feminist
Image of Wyndham Lewis
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
- Wyndham Lewis
Collection: Feminist
Image of Chelsea Clinton
Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.
- Chelsea Clinton
Collection: Feminist
Image of Eleanor Smeal
Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.
- Eleanor Smeal
Collection: Feminist
Image of J. F. Lawton
I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?
- J. F. Lawton
Collection: Feminist
Image of Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Collection: Feminist
Image of Roxane Gay
I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
- Roxane Gay
Collection: Feminist
Image of Terry Crews
I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.
- Terry Crews
Collection: Feminist
Image of Linda Gordon
The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.
- Linda Gordon
Collection: Feminist
Image of Moses Sofer
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
- Moses Sofer
Collection: Feminist
Image of Mary Daly
I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.
- Mary Daly
Collection: Feminist
Image of Buchi Emecheta
I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.
- Buchi Emecheta
Collection: Feminist
Image of Kate Clinton
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
- Kate Clinton
Collection: Feminist
Image of Park Chan-wook
I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.
- Park Chan-wook
Collection: Feminist
Image of Teresa de Lauretis
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.
- Teresa de Lauretis
Collection: Feminist
Image of Teresa de Lauretis
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 womens movement did not either.
- Teresa de Lauretis
Collection: Feminist
Image of Laura Vandervoort
I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.
- Laura Vandervoort
Collection: Feminist
Image of Evelyn Cunningham
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
- Evelyn Cunningham
Collection: Feminist
Image of Agnes Varda
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
- Agnes Varda
Collection: Feminist
Image of Carolyn R. Dimmick
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.
- Carolyn R. Dimmick
Collection: Feminist
Image of Warren Farrell
But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.
- Warren Farrell
Collection: Feminist
Image of Aziz Ansari
You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.
- Aziz Ansari
Collection: Feminist
Image of Margo Jefferson
For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.
- Margo Jefferson
Collection: Feminist
Image of Nancy Hartsock
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
- Nancy Hartsock
Collection: Feminist
Image of Judith Plaskow
I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
- Judith Plaskow
Collection: Feminist
Image of Crystal Eastman
Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.
- Crystal Eastman
Collection: Feminist
Image of Bertha Knight Landes
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
- Bertha Knight Landes
Collection: Feminist
Image of Asma Barlas
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases.
- Asma Barlas
Collection: Feminist
Image of Antony Hegarty
Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
- Antony Hegarty
Collection: Feminist
Image of Mel Gibson
Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.
- Mel Gibson
Collection: Feminist
Image of Marin Alsop
I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.
- Marin Alsop
Collection: Feminist
Image of Betty Friedan
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
- Betty Friedan
Collection: Feminist
Image of Martha Shelley
I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.
- Martha Shelley
Collection: Feminist
Image of Alice Glass
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
- Alice Glass
Collection: Feminist
Image of Ilana Glazer
We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach.
- Ilana Glazer
Collection: Feminist
Image of Debbie Harry
How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.
- Debbie Harry
Collection: Feminist
Image of Ilana Mercer
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.
- Ilana Mercer
Collection: Feminist
Image of Kate Nash
Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.
- Kate Nash
Collection: Feminist
Image of Lubos Motl
According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).
- Lubos Motl
Collection: Feminist
Image of Rheta Childe Dorr
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.
- Rheta Childe Dorr
Collection: Feminist
Image of Bonnie McFarlane
There's no such thing as a feminist - just women who pay for their own breast implants.
- Bonnie McFarlane
Collection: Feminist