Feminist Principles Quotes

We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.

Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

I believe that facts serve feminists far better than faith. That due process is better than mob rule.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.