Quotes of: Feminist Keyword

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

Frances O'Grady

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

Doris Lessing

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Vivienne Westwood

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

Ani DiFranco

I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

Wendy E. Long

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

Wyndham Lewis

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

Courtney Love

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

Caitlin Moran

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Helen Reddy

How do we reconcile the imperfections of feminism with all the good it can do? In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For wathever reason, we hold feminism to an unreasonable standard...

Bad Feminist: Essays

How do we reconcile the imperfections of feminism with all the good it can do? In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For whatever reason, we hold feminism to an unreasonable standard...

Bad Feminist: Essays

All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin ...

Bad Feminist: Essays

It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born in...

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution

Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industr...

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution

Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where one’s roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being ever-mindful of those aspects of one’s past tha...

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to happen, was because of certain people in our country. People like, and I'm quoting, 'the pagans,' which is a motorcycle group. Feminists; he brought up...

Lewis Black

Your body is yours to protect and to enjoy.” She raises both eyebrows at me meaningfully. “Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely. Every man that ever got to touch me was afforded an honor. ...

P.S. I Still Love You

I’m a feminist. That’s why I own a dishwasher.

Sleepwalking is restercise

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

Margaret Cho

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

Julie Christie

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Rachel Cusk