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I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.
— Jon Krakauer
My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
— Beyonce Knowles
There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.
— Catherine Marshall
The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.
— Maggie Young
To be a feminist is to be alive.
— Margaret Cho
I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.
— Lana Del Rey
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
— William Ruckelshaus
George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
— Karen DeCrow
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
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
— Nathalie Sarraute
I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
— Susan Brownmiller
Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.
— Sophia Amoruso
It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.
— Gemma Arterton
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.
— Judith Martin
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
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
— Florence King
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
— Bertha Knight Landes
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
Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.
— Juanda Brahma Metta
I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.
— Jackson Pearce
BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.
— Emma Watson
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
— Sarah Hall
Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.
— Bertha Knight Landes
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
No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.
— Lily Rabe
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
— Kate Atkinson
Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?
— Bell Hooks
I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.
— Christina Hendricks
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
— Natalie Dormer
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
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
— Judith Plaskow
My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.
— Phyllis Schlafly
I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.
— Dyllan McGee
Why couldn't she listen to him just once? Would it be that much of an insult to her feminist ancestors?
— Em Wolf
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
— Audre Lorde
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
— Camille Paglia
Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges
— Donna J. Haraway
We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
— Gloria Steinem
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
— Brit Marling
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
— Olympia Dukakis
The nuclear family must be destroyed ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.
— Linda Gordon
Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself.
— Melia Keeton-Digby
It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
— Ellen Goodman
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
— Andrea Dworkin
But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.
— Warren Farrell
In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.
— Alanis Morissette
I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.
— Daria Werbowy
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
— Hanna Rosin
I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
— Nick Cave
We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice.
— Dorothy Allison
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
Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
— Alice Childress
I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.
— Mary Daly
I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.
— Jessie Ware
Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
— Anne Hathaway
The problem with a lot of feminist works is that they tend to take the "feminine" out of "feminism.
— H.L. Grey
Life is a big battle for the complete feminist ...
— Crystal Eastman
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
— Catharine MacKinnon
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
— Tammy Bruce
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
— Maggie Young
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 was raised by a hardcore feminist.
— Joss Whedon
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
— 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
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
— Rebecca West
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
— Judith Butler
To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.
— Hillary Jordan
You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
— Sally Hawkins
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
— Bill Griffith
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
— Nancy Friday
I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
— Ingrid Michaelson
(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!
— Tammy Bruce
My father lost me to the Beast at cards
— Angela Carter
Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.
— Aysha Taryam
I am more feminist than feminists.
— Christian Louboutin
So this is feminist corner then.
— Prince Philip
life's better with girls. boys need girls.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson