I’m not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.
Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal – it just feels stifling.
I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
There are lesbians, God knows… if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York… who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
I don’t think I’m inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy… thing. And I’m very drawn to female energy, but I don’t really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.
I’ve always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn’t think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted.
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.
I always joke that I’m a feminist with a boob job.
A feminist is a person who wants equal things for men and women, and I definitely believe in that. This doesn’t mean I will degrade anyone. In our house, I want my mother and father to have equal importance and that’s the only way to bring up a socially responsible child.
I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs – and then I’m so mean to myself about my body sometimes.
I don’t know if I’m a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.
I feel confident that I’m presenting myself in a feminist way that is good for young women.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
I’m an old feminist and member of the anti-Nazi league.
I’m a feminist, and I am a man for choice.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I’ve done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
For me, the triad of ‘Harry Potter,’ the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Twilight’ feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it’s a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I’m very grateful for.
I’m a writer and a feminist of color, and I’ve written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I’m just one voice, but there are many others like me.
I’m not an active feminist: I’m an active humanist.
I am more feminist than feminists.
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I’m a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.
For some reason, the word ‘feminist’ freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.
I’m not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I’ve done wonders for the feminist movement.
I think I am a feminist in that I believe in equal pay between men and women.
I spent seven seasons on ‘Mad Men,’ playing what became considered a very feminist character.
Any adjective you put before the noun ‘writer’ is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it’s feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.
I am proud to represent the first explicitly feminist government in the world, and one that has been at the forefront of advocating for greater attention to women, peace, and security.
I believe in people, and you don’t need to be a feminist for that.
It’s just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn’t the Pope a feminist?
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
It’s self-deceptive to think we’re in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
So many people are concerned with being the perfect ‘something.’ Whether it’s the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don’t want to be the perfect anything.
The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I’d want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.
Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.
Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.
I’ve never been a feminist.
A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.
I think that ‘Gilmore Girls’ did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn’t really being portrayed at all.
The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don’t police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a general sense of togetherness are really important to me.
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father ‘giving’ the bride away, women taking their husband’s last name, the white dress, the vows promising to ‘obey’ the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.
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.
I’ve heard people say that ‘The Blair Witch Project’ is a feminist movie because there’s a woman in charge and I’ve heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It’s just a movie.
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
It’s funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’
People say Taylor Swift’s not feminist enough or Beyonce’s not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message.
For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
I’m going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the ‘f-word’ scared me. People would ask me if I was a feminist, and I didn’t know how to respond. The word seemed to put guys off, but now I realise, who cares?
If a woman wants to take her husband’s name, that’s her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.
Jeans are super American and will never go out of style. When they first came on the fashion scene they were a statement of women empowerment. When women began wearing pants, they wore jeans! They weren’t just denim, they were part of a feminist movement.
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there’s nothing feminist about that.
I think I’m always inspired by really, really funny, amazing women, but I’m also inspired by really funny, amazing men. I think there’s more of a feminist voice, like with Amy Schumer being out right now, whom I adore.
I am not a feminist, I am a humanist.
I’m a feminist, so it’s just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.
I don’t see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I’ve had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage – emotionally, career-wise.
The way we fund campaigns is a feminist issue and a race issue. If you want more representation, you can’t say it’s going to be really expensive to run for office and you need a rolodex of billionaires.
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There’s nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world – like we are called the Third World.
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
I don’t even know what a feminist is.
Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I’m as good as any man? Yes.
You hear younger women say, ‘I don’t believe I’m a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I’m certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!’ It’s just a word. If you called it ‘Fred’ would it be better?
