Feminist Quotes - page 11

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. (Nick Cave)
I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women. My work, both visually and musically, is a rejection of all those things. And most importantly a quest. View quote
Lady Gaga
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics. View quote
Eliza Dushku
I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly. View quote
Bob Hoskins
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. View quote
Alice Walker
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. View quote
Grace Slick
Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not "if only.” Not "as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You know, you're a feminist.” It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone-the same tone with which a person would say, "You're a supporter of terrorism. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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)
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry. View quote
A. S. Byatt
Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. View quote
Ani DiFranco
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. View quote
Chrissie Hynde
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them. View quote
Kathleen Hanna
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work. View quote
Kathleen Hanna
Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges. View quote
Donna Haraway
I'm absolutely a feminist. The reason other feminists don't like me is that I criticize the movement, explaining that it needs a correction. Feminism has betrayed women, alienated men and women, replaced dialogue with political correctness. View quote
Camille Paglia
Among the fundamental values linked to women's actual lives is what has been called a 'capacity for the other.' Although a certain type of feminist rhetoric makes demands 'for ourselves,' women preserve the deep intuition of the goodness in their lives of those actions which elicit life, and contribute to the growth and protection of the other.... But, in the final analysis, every human being, man or woman, is destined to be 'for the other.'... Therefore, the promotion of women within society must be understood and desired as a humanization accomplished through those values, rediscovered thanks to women. Every outlook which presents itself as a conflict between the sexes is only an illusion and a danger; it would end in segregation and competition between men and women, and would promote a solipsism nourished by a false conception of freedom. (Pope Benedict XVI)
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de siFcle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way. View quote
Camille Paglia
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. View quote
Camille Paglia
Whatever their motives, the first feminist theorists acted as vandals and Bolsheviks. View quote
Camille Paglia
The dishonesty and speciousness of the feminist rape analysis are demonstrated by its failure to explore, or even mention, man-on-man sex crimes. View quote
Camille Paglia