Fay Weldon Quotes

I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

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

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.

I don't know about calling yourself a feminist. I also, for me, it's difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion in this context. And I'm neither anti-male or pro- abortion, so.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.