Marlo Thomas Quotes

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

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.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

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. '

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

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

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

I remember my dad saying to me, 'But Fiona don't you want to go and do the dramatic society. You can still do your women's groups as well.' And I said, 'Dad, feminism is a way of life! It's not a hobby!'

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 differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

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

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.

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

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

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.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.