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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.
I hate feminism. It is poison,
Perhaps feminist is a bit like walking purposefully through a crowd.
What in the world is the matter with you?!"
"I'm a new feminist!
I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.
If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.
[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.
I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.
A feminist is a woman lover not a man hater
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.
I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.
If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.
Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It's about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you're having, and lending your support to other women. It's empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.
Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'
We don't need to be feminist in my generation.
feminism is for everybody
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
There are a lot of people who say, 'Yeah yeah, I'm a feminist,' and they're not, actually. I wouldn't want to throw that word around, because it's a very strong thing.
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
I'm definitely a feminist & proud of it.
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.
I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.
I am more feminist than feminists.
I don't label myself a feminist. I love men, but I am all about promoting a better, healthier relationship between the sexes.
The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian.
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.
I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.
I'm a Christian. And until the day when the world automatically understands that to mean that I believe in the full humanity and personhood of both men and women, you can also call me a feminist.
As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.
My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.
If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.
I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.
Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.
Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.
I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
Feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.
The diversity of voices, issues, approaches, and processes required to make feminism work as an inclusive social movement is precisely the kind of knotty, unruly insurrection that just can't be smoothed into a neat brand.
I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.
I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.
We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy ... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.
I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.
Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.
So many girls out there say, "I'm not a feminist" because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like, rioting and picketing. It is not that at all. It just simply means that you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities.
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
Do I have to take a memo for misogynist alert?"
"God, no. I'm not that traditional. Sexism is too 2015."
"Don't bother to explain, I'm not one of those strong-willed, self-declared feminists.
You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.
I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.
I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.
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.
Feminism is small revolutions, every day
Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
As a feminist you mustn't blame the other woman," a neighbor told her. "As a feminist I request that you no longer speak to me," Kit replied.)
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
I've never been a feminist.
I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.
A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.
I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'
I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.