Naomi Alderman Quotes

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.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

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

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

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.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

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

I think feminism is about the spirit.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

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.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.