Feminist Quotes - Page 14

I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

It took me quite a while to even admit that I was a feminist because I was ignorant of what it meant to be a feminist. I grew up believing in equality - believing that women and men were created equal and that we could be stronger together - but I didn't know that made me a feminist.

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.