Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivienne Westwood

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

Warren Farrell

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

Nawal El Saadawi

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Mel Gibson

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Teresa de Lauretis

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

Teresa de Lauretis

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

Laura Vandervoort

I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

Peter Kreeft

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Sandra Bernhard

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Germaine Greer

After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever before.

Anita Sarkeesian

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

John Stuart Mill

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Mariella Frostrup

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

Florence King

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

Gina Torres

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

Germaine Greer

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Gloria Steinem

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Zinedine Zidane

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

Henry Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

John Green

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Julian Barnes

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Joshua Reynolds

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.