Women Feminist Quotes
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
— Erica Jong
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
— Gloria Steinem
It takes more than balls to be a woman. It takes ovaries.
— Solange Nicole
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
— Evelyn Cunningham
I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.
— Jacqueline Rose
When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.
— Jennifer Crusie
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
— Kate Clinton
If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.
— Aziz Ansari
And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.
— Alia Mamdouh
A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.
— Shannon Celebi
You self-proclaimed "MILF" hunters have it all wrong
we aren't the prey, YOU are. You are but a Service Male - a SMILF! — Delaine Moore
we aren't the prey, YOU are. You are but a Service Male - a SMILF! — Delaine Moore
I define me. You don't.
— Miya Yamanouchi
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
— Nathalie Sarraute
The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
— Rick Santorum
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
— Susan Brownmiller
The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.
— William Moulton Marston
I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.
— Wilbur Smith
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
— Lena Dunham
Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women ...
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything,
— Miley Cyrus
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.
— Laura Vandervoort
I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.
— Cherie Blair
Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.
— Sue Monk Kidd
I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.
— Rashida Jones
She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
— Katherine Boo
I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.
— Erin Passons
I like a bit of spunk in a lady
— Lauren Groff
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
— Ti-Grace Atkinson
I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
— Jessica Valenti
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
— Bell Hooks
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
— Audre Lorde
Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.
— Bobby Riggs
#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.
— Abigail Tarttelin
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
— Laura Kightlinger
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
— Karen DeCrow
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
— Mayim Bialik
Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
— Antony Hegarty
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
— Tammy Bruce
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
— Janet Mock
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
— Sheila Rowbotham
People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist ... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.
— Lydia Leonard
There's no such thing as a feminist - just women who pay for their own breast implants.
— Bonnie McFarlane
...women, brave as stars at dawn
— Edwidge Danticat
Men are scumbags until they prove they're women.
— Robin Mellom
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
— Katori Hall
Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.
— Leslie Bibb
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
— Audre Lorde
Of course I'm a feminist ... if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.
— Jessica Pare
I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life
— Jen Richards
I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?
— Dalai Lama
I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.
— Caroline George
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
— Fay Weldon
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
— Marianne Williamson
All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.
— Isabelle Holland
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
— Alice Glass
The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
— Gail Sheehy
Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?
— Bell Hooks
I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
— Shania Twain
They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel.
— Betty Smith
Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
— Sena Jeter Naslund
I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
— Steven Tyler
Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves
— Ariel Levy
We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
— Melissa Farley
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.
— Andrea Dworkin
I'd like every man who doesn't call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn't believe in equality for women.
— Louise Brealey
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
— Brit Marling
Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
— Courtney Love
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up
— Margaret Atwood
I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
— Estelle Ramey
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
— Annie Lennox
This FEMINIST Goes Hard.
— Stephanie Lahart
He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
— George Carlin
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
— Camille Paglia
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
— Sam Kinison
Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.
— Taylor Swift
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
— Amy Winehouse
Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.
— Barack Obama
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
— Erica Jong
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
— A.S. Byatt
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
— Gloria Steinem
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.
— Amber Heard