Susan Sontag Quotes

Women are feminist by default.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. I do think because women are so clever and flexible and such good communicators, it been hard for men to evolve and keep up. I think we could do a little better to help them out.

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

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

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

I consider myself to be a feminist. My hope and goal is that I'm going to raise two very strong independent women that won't need anybody, unless they chose that. I want them to be mistresses of their own destiny. But I don't judge people on the other end of that spectrum either.

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

No one knows what women want!

I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?