Feminist Quotes

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West)
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. View quote
Kathy Najimy
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. View quote
Rebecca West
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu. View quote
Edward Said
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. View quote
Alice Walker
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. (Audre Lorde)
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. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
I do consider myself to be a feminist. View quote
Isla Fisher
I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently. View quote
Suzanne Vega
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. View quote
Daphne Zuniga
I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist. View quote
Ida Lupino
Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes. View quote
Yasmine Bleeth
It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women. View quote
Cyndi Lauper
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission. (Arundhati Roy)
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. View quote
Gloria Steinem
I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality. View quote
Harriet Harman
I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. View quote
Andrea Dworkin