#feminist

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#attractive #bright #feminist #give #grunge

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#came #clearly #concerned #experienced #feminist

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#believe #came #conference #discussion #express

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#change #change things #feminists #first #fought

I still consider myself a feminist. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#feminist #i #myself #still

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. ↗

— Emma Watson

#been #bit #feminist #generation #i

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

#hard #i #just #mean #out

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #biggest #concern #concerned #doing

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves ↗

— Ariel Levy

#business

Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.” “Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.” Lady Placida laughed. “True enough. But perhaps that is beginning to change.” She offered her hands. “It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#history #sff #wit #change