Quotes About Feminism

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

I've never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I've got a reputation as a troublemaker.

Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.

We must develop a truly global roadmap to eradicate all forms of discrimination still suffered by women.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Our brand Ivanka Trump is committed to celebrating women.

What is nearly certain is that Donald Trump did not consider himself a feminist in the way-back 80s, nor was he making these hiring decisions, particularly, to shatter any glass ceilings.

Consider the record: In Trump's world, a woman is not in front of a man; her place is behind, under, or on his arm.

I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.