Roxane Gay Quotes

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

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.

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.

I am more feminist than feminists.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.

My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world.

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.