Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joan Jett

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Emma Watson

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Emma Watson

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

Josh McDowell

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

Laura Vandervoort

I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

Mel Gibson

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

Mary Daly

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.

Lily Rabe

No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

Laura Benanti

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

Taylor Swift

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

Julianne Moore

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Helen Reddy

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

Jo Brand

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Joss Whedon

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

Peter Kreeft

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Tammy Bruce

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

Rush Limbaugh

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

Robin Morgan

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

Roxane Gay

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

Susie Bright

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

Suzanne Vega

I still consider myself a feminist.

Starhawk

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

Vivienne Westwood

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Virginia Woolf

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

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.