Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

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.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

Women are feminist by default.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.