Bad Feminist Quotes

#1. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

Roxane Gay

#2. With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.

Ayelet Waldman

#3. I hate the word "bitch." I do. Using the B-word makes me feel like a bad feminist, but sometimes there is no other word.

Julie Buxbaum

#4. I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Roxane Gay

#5. I felt bad for the girls in my school, who flocked to prom like it was the second coming of Christ, complete with double-rainbows and unicorns.

G.G. Silverman

#6. I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

Caitlin Moran

#7. This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

Donna Leon

#8. If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

Al-Ghazali

#9. (if you never make a decision, you can't make a mistake). It

Gavin De Becker

#10. Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

Anne Hathaway

#11. She thought she was a feminist. She was only bad tempered.

Hari Kunzru

#12. I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.

Jon Oringer

#13. I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

Ellen Page

#14. Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.

Anna Kendrick

#15. You are the creation of your own consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. 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.

Melanie Brown

#17. They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Vachel Lindsay

#18. I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him
even if I was no longer on earth.

Alexandra Adornetto

#19. Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

Buchi Emecheta

#20. During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Florence King

#21. A smile is the best makeup that can change your looks and your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Never let something so unworthy define you.

Katherine Reay

#23. There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

Naomi Wolf

#24. You think you're defending my 'honor,' but you're just as bad as he is.

Brittany Cavallaro

#25. The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.

Robin McKinley

#26. That's why you're so strong and I'm not." "You will have to be," Isabelle said. "For Sophie." Vianne drew in a breath. And there it was. The reason she couldn't eat a bowl of arsenic or throw herself in front of a train.

Kristin Hannah

#27. I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Gene Hackman

#28. Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

Amy Poehler

#29. Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.

Bobby Heenan

#30. I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

Roxane Gay