Isabel Allende Quotes

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

I still consider myself a feminist.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

I'm an ardent feminist.

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 am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

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

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

I am most certainly a feminist.

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

If you look back at what I believe and what I stand for, I am certainly a proud feminist.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

I don't really consider myself to be a super feminist.

As a woman, my stance is that I'm a fighter, and in no way will I support any kind of injustice against women in our society.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.