Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Lagerfeld

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

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.

Kathleen Hanna

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

Jessica Valenti

One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I'm doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere.

Jessica Valenti

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

Jessica Valenti

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.

Jessica Valenti

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Jenna Jameson

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

Nawal El Saadawi

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.

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.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

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.

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.

Laura Benanti

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

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

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

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.

Yoko Ono

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.

Wyndham Lewis

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