Chrissie Hynde quote: "The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. ...
MARTI NOXON

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibi...
CALLIE KHOURI

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the femin...
NICK CAVE

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
CARINE ROITFELD

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.
KRITI SANON

I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.
BOB HOSKINS

They turned me into a feminist because I was so frustrated. I'm grateful to them.
CHARLOTTE BUNCH

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w...
ALICE MUNRO

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to b...
ARIELLE DOMBASLE

I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, wo...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be...
R.B. O'BRIEN

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ...
LIZ PHAIR

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
ROXANE GAY

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity w...
NICOLA ADAMS

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY

I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie'...
TAVI GEVINSON

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, th...
NAOMI WOLF

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginat...
A. S. BYATT

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, bu...
MARLO THOMAS

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
BUCHI EMECHETA

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian th...
JUDITH BUTLER

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
YASMINE BLEETH

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me w...
GAYLE FORMAN

You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have...
GAIL COLLINS

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr...
REBECCA WEST

My last girlfriend was a feminist, vegan punk who broke up with me because she thought I was too ang...
LEIGH WHANNELL

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I l...
CARLA BRUNI

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I&...
TAVI GEVINSON

I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don'...
SUZANNE VEGA

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
NATALIE DORMER

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

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
ROXANE GAY

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the ph...
CYNTHIA OZICK

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
BERNADINE DOHRN

I still consider myself a feminist.
SUZANNE VEGA

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I a...
AYELET WALDMAN

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not lo...
DIANA RIGG

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on i...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to ...
EVE ENSLER

I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It'...
HATTIE MORAHAN

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. T...
SAFFRON BURROWS

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western worl...
CAITLIN MORAN

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite ...
BETH DITTO

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
CHANTAL AKERMAN

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic....
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've alway...
NANCY FRIDAY

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
ILANA GLAZER

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL

I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
WENDY E. LONG

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you&#...
COBIE SMULDERS

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una...
BETTY BUCKLEY

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that'...
GLORIA STEINEM

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it do...
MARJANE SATRAPI

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
CALLIE KHOURI

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a wel...
BELL HOOKS

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist w...
ELLEN GOODMAN

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
LYDIA LUNCH

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, in...
ELIF SAFAK

What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a ...
MIYA YAMANOUCHI

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intellige...
DARIA WERBOWY

I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
JACKEE HARRY

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it...
AMY WINEHOUSE

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape....
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
IDA LUPINO

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't th...
ELIZABETH JOAN SMITH

I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and peop...
LORDE

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
SALLY KEMPTON

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist
SALLY KEMPTON

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible...
ANITA SARKEESIAN

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has suc...
LAURA KIGHTLINGER

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a...
JOAN SMITH

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines.
GERHARD KOCHER

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I wo...
KELLY BROOK

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also...
LIZ GOLDWYN

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
ELIZA DUSHKU

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative fam...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I'm disappointed that Marian Boyd, who is a feminist, would recommend such a thing,
JUDY REBICK

...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist...
SUSAN J. DOUGLAS

Fat Is a Feminist Issue
SUSIE ORBACH

I'm going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the 'f-word' scared me. Peopl...
WHITNEY WOLFE

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
YASMINE BLEETH

Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he fi...
EMILIE AUTUMN

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.
JACKSON PEARCE

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM

This was her body. She had learned to take pleasure in it, even if no man had ever done the same. It...
TESSA DARE

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
BUCHI EMECHETA

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

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The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

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