Kalki Koechlin Quotes

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

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 consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

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

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

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

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

There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

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

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

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.

I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.