Feminist Quotes - page 9

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her. (Felicity Jones)
I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that. View quote
Frances O'Grady
My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty. View quote
Frances O'Grady
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, "Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it." She goes, "Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?" View quote
Gillian Jacobs
You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better? View quote
Gail Collins
People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be. View quote
Gretchen Mol
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. View quote
Hanna Rosin
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. View quote
Hanna Rosin
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type. View quote
Hanna Rosin
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling. View quote
Jessica Valenti
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. (Jessica Valenti)
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding. View quote
Jessica Valenti
You know, people ask me a lot, well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist? And I think that yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist. View quote
Jessica Valenti
I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts. View quote
Jessie Ware
I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person. View quote
Jill Scott
I'm not a feminist at all. View quote
Kirsty Gallacher
I would love for people to know that the label feminist is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women. View quote
Kristen Schaal
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. View quote
Louise Mensch
I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. View quote
Lydia Lunch
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation. View quote
Laura Kightlinger
I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that. (Lauren Mayberry)
Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today. View quote
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary. View quote
Mariella Frostrup
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way. View quote
Ariel Levy
I am most certainly a feminist. View quote
Brenda Brathwaite