Feminist Quotes - Page 8

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.