Quotes About Feminism

I make sure not to do anything which can be insulting for women- something very common in Punjabi films.

I don't like this word, 'Feminazis,' or 'libtard.' I don't like these words, because I feel there's no true understanding of the word 'feminism,' there's no understanding of the word 'liberal,' and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

I may not go down in history as the best female golfer to ever play, however my intent is to do whatever I can to grow the game.

You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.

In those days, and still now, I had a lot of women friends -- mostly in the black swan category-- who ignored convention and things society expected women to be, but didn't fuck your boyfriend, no matter what. Fucking people's husbands is for people from Ivy League colleges who read too much John O'Hara.

After all, historically it's always been dreadful for women, and the logic given them was "It's going to be dreadful so you may as well learn to enjoy it." I

chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way

Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn't need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Not like rose petals. Don't try to decorate.

Minha revolução vai dar um golpe no Estado mental chamado patriarcado.

After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.

Something is unfolding. It is both mystical and practical. It requires that we show up, do our exercise, and get out of the way. In order for the human race to continue, women must be safe and empowered. It's an obvious idea, but like a vagina, it needs great attention and love in order to be revealed.

She told me my clitoris is not something I could lose. It was me, the essence of me. It was both the doorbell to my house and the house itself. I didn't have to find it. I had to be it. Be it. Be my clitoris. Be my clitoris.

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

No woman is owed economic support, children, respect or love. The woman who accepts and lives by correct principles thereby earns the right to make certain demands upon her husband; being female entitles her to nothing.

We wish to glorify war–the sole cleanser of the world—…. We wish to destroy the museums, libraries, academies of any sort, and fight against moralism, feminism, and every kind of materialist, self-serving cowardice.