Top 396 Feminists Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

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.

One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I'm doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere. And it's really that kind of diversity of thought that informs me more than anything else these days. It's just kind of learning something new all the time. And I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.

Fifth Harmony are all feminists. It's our duty to reach out to people and let them know a woman can be just as powerful as a man can be.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

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.

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

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.

As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

In their ideological zeal, the feminists of the illiberal left don't seem to realize how they've given feminism a bad name.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

If we want to create change, we all have to be feminists - men, women, everyone needs to acknowledge that. Sometimes I have more in common with the man than I do the woman in the room.

I remember being on a red carpet and they put the mic to us and asked 'are you feminists?' and we panicked. We were so terrified to speak back then.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid to say they are feminists.

Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.