Quotes About Feminism

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Two books under my belt, some controversial journalism, a reputation for contentious provocative attention-seizing writing. I had something of a name. If feminism had been around then I'd have taken it up, I suppose; it would have needed me. As it was, I never felt its absence; being a woman seemed to me a valuable extra asset.

You cant spell overreacting with out ovary, because you are a girl

Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.

Speaking for myself, I've always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.

You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.

If you must have a female role model, may I recommend Katherine Hepburn or Angelina Jolie: lots of pants, lots of attitude, no jewelry.

feminist Abby Kelley to the executive committee by a tally of 557 to 451.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

A feminist who had always been supported by men—first my father and now the Noted Activist—and who, though she continually harangued me about the "nobility of labor," had never, as far as I knew, actually been gainfully employed.

Still, in the top left-hand corner, a huge button bought in New York's Union Square in the mid eighties: I myself have never been able to figure out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing," she was told over and again.

Their Eyes is a bold feminist novel, the first to be explicitly so in the Afro-American tradition.

Alice Walker published her important essay ("In Search of Zora Neale Hurston") in Ms. magazine in 1975

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

We must make it clear to younger girls that being someone's wife is not an achievement.

I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.

I've been a female activist since the time I was 13 years old.

I don't like actors, I like women.

I'm an actress, not a pinup.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.