68 Feminists Quotes for You to Enjoy

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think. Ellen Key

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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed. Felicity Kendal

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Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians. Florence King

Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an even more salacious retort. But timid feminists don't see it that way. To them, the proper reply is a lawsuit - that safe, modern version of the old slap in the face. Florence King

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Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. Florence King

Women Writing Fine Along Until Feminists Coming Came Lit Turned

Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we're right-on feminists, but underneath that, there's still the bedrock of romance. Gemma Jones

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Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes. Gloria Allred

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I think we should all call ourselves feminists. Hanna Rosin

Think Ourselves Call Feminists Should

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle. James Hillman

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Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here. Janet Mock

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor. Joan Jett

You Sense Of Humor Humor Sit Sense Say Easier Like Because Feminists

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage. Karen DeCrow

Marriage Out Come Institution Most Feminists American Did Against Century

I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women. Lina Wertmuller

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In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. Lynn Coady

Revolution Late Everywhere Focusing Housework Feminists Were Upheaval Sixties Ridiculed

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place. Martin Van Creveld

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Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. Mel Gibson

Me Like Feminists Them

Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters. Michelle Dean

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Feminists are like the Borg from 'Star Trek.' They don't know anything about other groups beyond the fact that they need to be assimilated into a hivemind that mindlessly follows the orders of a Queen. Milo Yiannopoulos

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We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home. Nancy Wilson

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