Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kirsty Gallacher

I'm not a feminist at all.

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.

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.

Mia Wasikowska

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

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.

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.

Jon Krakauer

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

Tammy Bruce

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

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.

Robin Morgan

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

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.

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

Joss Whedon

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

Lily Rabe

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

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.

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.

Rush Limbaugh

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

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.

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.