Quotes About Feminism

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

I listened to a lot of female pop music growing up. I started to realize that there were women out there wanting to stay something, playing instruments and writing their own songs.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.

All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.

I think that 'Gilmore Girls' did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all.

I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

I've a kinship with women. That's why I've always put women in strong positions in music.