Anne Lamott Quotes

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

The need for women to have their own individual identity belongs to your generation, not mine.

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

We must tell girls their voices are important.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.