Mean Feminist Quotes

#1. Sad White Babies with Mean Feminist Mommies.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights ...

Aziz Ansari

#3. Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it's like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#4. I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.

Jon Krakauer

#5. Being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

Janeane Garofalo

#6. It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Virginia Petrucci

#7. There's no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.'
'Good, because I didn't mean to. It's a habit with females, that's all, saying sorry all the time when there's absolutely no need. . .

Miranda Lee

#8. [S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Crystal Eastman

#9. People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Gloria Steinem

#10. I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

Audre Lorde

#11. 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.

Fay Weldon

#12. Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up

Margaret Atwood

#13. It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

Elizabeth Joan Smith

#14. A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'

Gillian Jacobs

#15. To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.

Lily Tomlin

#16. If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

Grace Paley

#17. I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Joss Whedon

#18. Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

Gloria Steinem

#19. Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone.

Claire Hennessy

#20. 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.

Taylor Swift

#21. I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.

Kathleen Hanna

#22. Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Donna J. Haraway

#23. Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify that a little bit more. I was an English major, so break it down: -ist means one who celebrates. As a feminist, I celebrate my femininity.

Christine O'Donnell

#24. Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

Yasmine Bleeth

#25. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

#26. I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

Ronee Blakley

#27. 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.

Sarah Bessey

#28. Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

Henry Makow

#29. To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#30. 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.

Ayelet Waldman

#31. Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

Leighton Meester