Feminist Quotes

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

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.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

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.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.