#feminist

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#i #just #liberation #toward #woman

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. ↗

— Liz Phair

#am #away #be yourself #because #define

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#better #copy #done #feminist #flaming

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#am #catholic #feminist #husband #i

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#character #comic #comic strip #developed #early

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor. ↗

— Joan Jett

#easier #feminists #humor #like #say

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#feminist #had #i #me #movement

Le sens de la toilette féminine est manifest: il s'agit de se 'parer' et se parer c'est s'offrir; les feministes hétérosexuelles se sont montrées naguère sur ce point aussi intransiseantes que les lesbiennes: elles refusaient de faire d'elles-même une marchandise qu'on exhibem elles adoptaient des tailleurs et des feutres secs; les robes ornées, décolletées leurs semblaient le symbole de l'ordre social qu'elles combattaient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feminism #feminists #symbol #beauty