One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.
When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.
I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
The care of children. . is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation. . . [This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.
I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
I wouldn't advocate for a feminism that's buttoned-up and divorced of the messiness of our real lives. Your feelings are your feelings, but you're not going to litigate your feelings about my body. The feminist ethics that I signed up for were respect for my bodily autonomy, that my experience is my experience, and that I'm an expert in my own life.
I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.
I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
Women are feminist by default.
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.