Quotes About Feminism

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

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.

It's more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn't that they have to be good people. It's that they have to be people.

As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women.

I think that Linda Perry is such a beautiful example of strong female representation in the industry.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.

My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.

My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

I believe that the 'believe all women' vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach.

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

'Playing like a girl' was used as a demeaning term instead of an empowering one. I am proud to be a girl and rocking the ice.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.