Quotes About Feminism

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

I am a black woman, last time I checked.

I'm an Obama chick.

I loved the Dixie Chicks. They were always so fun.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

Charlotte Flair is continuing her father's legacy but paving her own, and she's opening the door for women all over the world to be superstars in a male dominated industry.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

I support women-run business.

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment.

I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.

As women, we're always supposed to be catty, or too cute to dance. And it sucks.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.