Feminist Quotes

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

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.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

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.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

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.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

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.

Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.