I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.
I’ve never considered myself a feminist, but I’m happy that I’ve been raised as a strong, independent woman.
I’ve set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
I’m a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
It’s now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early ’90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don’t realize happened.
I will stand for equality, and that doesn’t mean giving me reservation. I would like to fight for it; just give me a fair chance. That’s what being a feminist is.
I still consider myself a feminist.
I don’t think in a male or female way. I don’t differentiate between male and female. I never have. I’m not considered a feminist.
I am a mother now, and I’m a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.
I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as ‘someone who seeks equality between the sexes.’
Well, I don’t think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that’s going to shut down the world.
My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.
It’s not my place to tell anyone what kind of feminist she should be.
Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it’s all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.
What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I’ve worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you’re not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you’re a feminist because you couldn’t get a man.
I’m not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I’m a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
I’m a feminist.
The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women’s rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it’s the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.
We’ve certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, ‘Do you see yourself as a feminist?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know. I’m not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.’
It’s time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, ‘Well, you can’t include men if you’re talking about feminism and being a feminist,’ so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you’re not pro-woman!
I’ve always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.
I had this relationship with the Mona Lisa painting and I thought it was important to look further. In a time that was very masculine, Leonardo da Vinci took a feminist approach.
When you say ‘revolution’ when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I’m not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it’s not fine.
I am what would be called a ‘mainstream feminist,’ not a radical feminist.
I would definitely say I’m a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It’s about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.
No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You’d think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.
I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn’t do something.
There was a bad patch in the ’80s and early ’90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
I don’t like the word feminist. I don’t think women trying to be men is feminism. I also don’t believe in being outspoken for the sake of it, or just to prove a point.
I don’t think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, ‘Just wait.’
I was very fortunate to grow up in France with amazing parents who allowed me to understand the importance of activism. My dad was a politician but he was also an activist, and my mom was a beautiful feminist who took care of others.
When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.
My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.
My number-one goal is to never feel like I’m strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I’m doing that as anything – as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter – I feel like the minute I name it, I’m stuck in a box.
I’m a feminist, a 21st-century feminist – which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.
I consider myself a rampant feminist.
I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.
Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
My wife is a social worker and a feminist, and it feels natural to me to have these relationships with these powerhouse women that I have had.
I think women were gradually becoming more independent – the feminist movement of the Sixties didn’t just spring out of nowhere.
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one’s viewpoint.
I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I’m black and a woman. You don’t necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you’re a woman.
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.
I grew up in a small town in the Mojave Desert where conservative Republicans were as common as cacti. Inexplicably, I grew up liberal and a feminist.
I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.
I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren’t allowed to make a sound.
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
I’m happy to say I’m a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white – we’re all in it together.
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, ‘Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.’ She goes, ‘Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?’
The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
With the feminist movement – a good movement which I support – there’s been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.
If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
