Christine Pelosi Quotes

Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.

We have to be intentional with including trans women, all women, all marginalized people. Whether we say 'Me Too' or call ourselves feminists or strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the world we live in, it's all about being intentional.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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.

I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

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

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Freedom for woman … can only be freedom for the middle-class woman … Socialism and feminism if they can be parallel social tendencies, cannot be one cause.

I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and Catholics (like myself) and women now share privileges and powers once reserved for Protestant white men.

I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind - if I'm not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity.

The personal is political for so many.

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.