Feminist Artist Quotes

#1. Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God ... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.

John Adams

#2. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

Beyonce Knowles

#3. I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

Kathleen Hanna

#4. We were entwined so tightly that I was afraid to breathe, lest she move at all.

Dave Eggers

#5. I wouldn't want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there's a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you're an artist and you're a feminist.

Carolee Schneemann

#6. All everyone is trying to do is create a better life for the human race. Why can't everyone stop fighting and start working together to accomplish that?

L.T. Gibbons

#7. I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Ian Hart

#8. Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

Jeb Bush

#10. ( ... ) After a certain age, when the remaining years first take on their finite aspect, and you begin to feel for yourself the first chill, you watch a dying man with a closer, more brotherly interest.

Ian McEwan

#11. I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

Kathleen Hanna

#12. My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

Mark Bradford

#13. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

Frida Kahlo

#14. In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

Alanis Morissette

#15. I can't promise what will happen in the future; no one can. But I can promise that I want to be with you.

Samantha Young

#16. Women's work, like much blue-collar work and agrarian work, is often invisible and uncredited, the work that holds the world together - maintenance work as the great feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles called it in her Maintenance Art manifesto.

Rebecca Solnit

#17. Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

Eugene H. Peterson