Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.
Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.
I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them. . . Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.
There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.
There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.