Feminist Quotes - Page 11

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.