Quotes About Feminism

'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Our ideas of consent have evolved and changed because feminism has pushed the boundaries.

I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

If you listen to my music, that's everything I stand for: women being free about their sexuality, flipping the industry's gender roles and society's gender roles and just being as confident as you can be with yourself, your sexuality.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.

I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is that what I am?' At the time, I just cared about equality.

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.

For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.