Quotes About Feminism

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.

It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

I've been raised by three women.

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it.

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

'Siya Ke Ram' is the story of Sita and Ram as two equally strong individuals, and I feel 'Ramayan' is as much as Sita's journey as it is Ram's.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.