Fiona Bruce Quotes

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.

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

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

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

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

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

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by 'feminist.' In the beginning, I used to say, 'Well, of course I'm a feminist.' But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not.

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

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

Feminism is a lens I see the world through and what I believe in. I don't ever use it as a tool of promotion.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

...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 think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

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.

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.

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.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

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