Rachel Cusk Quotes

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

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.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

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.

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

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. '

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

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

How can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up. There was an active women's movement. My mother was a part of it.

You had a generation of women, of which I'm part, where it was a stigma to be associated with feminism; there was a backlash. Now you have a generation that is clearly embracing feminism because, at the end of the day, the definition of feminism is just equality.

There was an angry wave in the '70s, a strong feminist angry wave. I remember thinking - oh my God - I thought it was the beginning of something, and it all went quiet.

It can't be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

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

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

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

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