Viv Albertine Quotes

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

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

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.

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

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

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

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 was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

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

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

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

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

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'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

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