All Quotes

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
‐‐ Mackenzie Davis

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
‐‐ Aaron Allston

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
‐‐ Susan Faludi

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
‐‐ Betty Buckley

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
‐‐ Tavi Gevinson

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.
‐‐ Kavita Ramdas

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
‐‐ Miranda Richardson

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.
‐‐ Grace Slick

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.
‐‐ Dave Sim

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
‐‐ Bjork

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.
‐‐ Emily Oster

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
‐‐ Paula Cole

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.
‐‐ Duncan Hunter

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.
‐‐ Duncan Hunter

Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.
‐‐ Elodie Clouvel

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
‐‐ Kris Holden-Ried

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
‐‐ V. E. Schwab

Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
‐‐ Imelda Marcos

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.
‐‐ Josh Duhamel

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.
‐‐ Eric Holder

Fermat said he had a proof.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.
‐‐ Torrey DeVitto

Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

Ferrari gives you a special feeling.
‐‐ Fernando Alonso

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.
‐‐ Alexander Grothendieck

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
‐‐ Frantz Fanon

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
‐‐ Johnny Marr

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.
‐‐ David Binder