Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabel Allende

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Gemma Arterton

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Erica Jong

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Isabelle Holland

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Marlo Thomas

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

Marjane Satrapi

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

Marin Alsop

I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.

Marina Abramovic

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

Laura Kightlinger

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Mia Wasikowska

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Margaret Thatcher

In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.

Margaret Cho

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

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.

Julia Ward Howe

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

Jon Krakauer

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

Gloria Steinem

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Gloria Steinem

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Gloria Steinem

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Michael Tomasky

Hillary Clinton was the first professional First Lady, the first feminist First Lady, the first First Lady from the '60s generation, the first First Lady who was the breadwinner in the family. A lot of America liked and admired that. Some other parts of America found that unappetizing and even kind of threatening. So she became a flashpoint simply for who she was.

Christina Hoff Sommers

The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.

Christian Louboutin

I am more feminist than feminists.

Jennifer Lawrence

I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.

Chrissie Hynde

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Phyllis Schlafly

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

Joyce Carol Oates

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

Katha Pollitt

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

Kate Atkinson

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

Julie Christie

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

Julie Burchill

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.

Prince Philip

So this is feminist corner then.

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.