Feminism Quotes

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.

I don’t consider myself a feminist, but I’m down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, ‘What do you want to say?’ it would be, ‘Love yourself more.’

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.