Charlotte Bunch Quotes

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.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

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 starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

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 doesn't have a particularly constructive image, although I think there was time when it was relevant.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

I'm definitely a feminist.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.