Radical Feminist Quotes

#1. I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

Clara Bingham

#3. I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

Andrea Dworkin

#4. President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

Michelle Malkin

#5. To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

Gloria Steinem

#6. There's this huge number of desperate people.

Lloyd Alexander

#7. Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

Vivian Gornick

#8. Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

John Green

#9. Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

Andrea Dworkin

#10. Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.

Bill Maris

#11. There's a balance. Time and place for everything.

Chris Sharma

#12. She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.

Alexandra Fuller

#13. That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

Isabel Allende

#15. I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little buzz you get when you do something well and sing it out loud to the public. And people clap and tell you how great you are.

Guy Clark

#16. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)]

Marie Shear

#17. As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Sheila Jeffreys

#18. Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

Brian Herbert

#19. Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

Bell Hooks

#20. Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Gloria Steinem

#21. Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard.

Finn Mackay

#22. She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

Sherry Thomas

#23. When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

David Corn

#24. You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#25. Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

Sheila Jeffreys

#26. If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

Wendell Berry

#27. What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.

Annie Lennox

#28. I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.

John Waters

#29. Hadley Grayson is my lightning, my speed, my hearts, my candy.
I've never tried any of my own products and I'm glad I haven't.
It might have reduced my tolerance for happy.

Amanda Lance

#30. I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

Sean Lennon

#31. Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts ...

Raphael Kadushin

#32. The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

Ti-Grace Atkinson

#33. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

Rick Santorum

#34. Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Gloria Steinem

#35. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Andrea Dworkin