Feminist Quotes - page 12

It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line - as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experiences outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one. (Camille Paglia)
If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. View quote
Margaret Cho
To be a feminist is to be alive. View quote
Margaret Cho
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. View quote
Liz Phair
Feminist thought and practice were fundamentally altered when radical class I attended-a class where everyone except me was white and female and mostly from privileged backgrounds-when I interrupted a discussion about the origins of domination in which it was argued that when a child is coming out of the womb the factor deemed most important is gender. I stated that when the child of two black parents is coming out of the womb the factor that is considered first is skin color, then gender, because race and gender will determine that child's fate. Looking at the interlocking nature of gender, race, and class was the perspective that changed the direction of feminist thought. View quote
Bell hooks
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion,, and it is both appropriate and necessary that we speak against such oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
To blame feminism for women's "lesser life” is to miss entirely the point of feminism, which is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles. As Rebecca West wrote sardonically in 1913, "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: l only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." View quote
Susan Faludi
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. View quote
Barbara Kruger
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value; the wittering English feminist concerned that her tolerance is implicitly intolerant of the Sudanese wife-beater and compulsory clitorectomy scheduler. View quote
Mark Steyn
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. (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. View quote
Julie Burchill
Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination - on the NHS, naturally - when she got knocked up the last time. . . Famous women would rather admit to having been sexually abused as children than to having had a termination. . . Myself, I'd as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over those [five] abortions. I had a choice, and I chose life - mine. View quote
Julie Burchill
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist. View quote
Julie Burchill
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. View quote
Rachel Cusk
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. View quote
Rachel Cusk
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge. View quote
Rachel Cusk
I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.' View quote
Helen Mirren
"Is the NIV the Feminist Bible for the New Age?" (August 1997).[citation needed]. View quote
Texe Marrs
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. View quote
Pat Robertson
The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it. (Utah Phillips)
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem. View quote
Jon Krakauer
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with. View quote
Natalie Portman
I decided that I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. View quote
Emma Watson
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. View quote
Emma Watson