Quotes of: Feminist Keyword

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Caitlin Moran

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

Jami Attenberg

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.

Ani DiFranco

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

Eliza Dushku

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Rachel Cusk

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

Alison Pill

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be.

Love

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Nawal El Saadawi

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

A. S. Byatt

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Martin Van Creveld

Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']

Louis-Auguste Blanqui

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Marina Abramovic

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Rebecca West

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.

Sophia Amoruso

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

Natalie Dormer

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Hanna Rosin

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

Julie Burchill

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

Jane Fonda

Gentle With Them Thar Spurs'—a sequel to 'Riders of the Purple Sau-Sage.' Spurs was the feminist novel of its day…which was Tuesday." —Bats 2015

Fred Barnett