I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough, depending on who you spoke to.
Sarah McLachlan
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O'BRIEN As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet WYNDHAM LEWIS I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite ... BETH DITTO I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie'... TAVI GEVINSON I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, bu... MARLO THOMAS I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. ROXANE GAY I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibi... CALLIE KHOURI To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don'... SUZANNE VEGA The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist st... CHRISSIE HYNDE I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly. BOB HOSKINS Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and fe... CAMERON RUSSELL There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a wel... BELL HOOKS I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, in... ELIF SAFAK Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. MARY DALY I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. LYDIA LUNCH I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ... TONI MORRISON I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist. IDA LUPINO Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w... ALICE MUNRO I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible... ANITA SARKEESIAN I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. SALLY KEMPTON I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist SALLY KEMPTON Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn... BETTY BUCKLEY I still consider myself a feminist. SUZANNE VEGA I couldn't believe how many hours a day I was obsessing on it. And I thought, this can't be true, be... EVE ENSLER I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it do... MARJANE SATRAPI I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ... REBECCA HALL ...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist... SUSAN J. DOUGLAS So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn... BETTY BUCKLEY A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on i... GILLIAN JACOBS There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion. NORMA MCCORVEY Valérie: "You know, you don't need to be a lesbian to be a feminist. Nor do you need short hair to ... CLéMENTINE BEAUVAIS The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it. TRINNY WOODALL She was never known as a feminist. She would never admit to it, but I think deep down she was. She f... WILDA SMITH But, of course, you might be asking yourself, 'Am I a feminist? I might not be. I don't know! I stil... CAITLIN MORAN I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to b... ARIELLE DOMBASLE The feminist movement was created to allow ugly women access to the mainstream of society RUSH LIMBAUGH Shakespeare's heroines are generally quite bold. His women were women of character ? that would appe... LYNNE BURROUGHS It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist w... ELLEN GOODMAN Austen has a strong feminist vision of marital happiness. And that was a radical viewpoint for its t... HELEN THOMPSON I feel like a feminist is gender equality. ILANA GLAZER Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feis... BILL GRIFFITH The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolu... BETTY FRIEDAN Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but ... BETH DITTO For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku K... MARY DALY But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women... AUDRE LORDE I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una... BETTY BUCKLEY I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the ph... CYNTHIA OZICK I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, wo... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm an independent woman and a feminist. KRITI SANON Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. ALICE WALKER I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not lo... DIANA RIGG My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final pro... DAPHNE ZUNIGA What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as ... RACHEL CUSK Fat Is a Feminist Issue SUSIE ORBACH I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the femin... NICK CAVE You could argue that she was the first feminist, but I think she was more than that, a visionary abl... JEAN LECLERC It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a... JOAN SMITH For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you... COBIE SMULDERS This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. JOHN CALLAHAN I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman. BUCHI EMECHETA Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes. YASMINE BLEETH I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that. JACKEE HARRY I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also... LIZ GOLDWYN I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie. CALLIE KHOURI Are you a Feminist? (addressing a group of professional military officers) Oh...WRONG question. I sh... ESTELLE RAMEY I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines. GERHARD KOCHER To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry. CHRISTINA LAUREN I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination ... DOROTHY ALLISON Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes. YASMINE BLEETH The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are hea... BELL HOOKS The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encoura... BARBARA EHRENREICH It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't th... ELIZABETH JOAN SMITH Labelling is no longer a liberating political act but a necessity in order to gain entrance into the... KRYSTA WILLIAMS I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some... GOLDIE HAWN I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some... GOLDIE HAWN The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the f... PATTI SMITH You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have... GAIL COLLINS Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. PATRICIA SCHROEDER Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he fi... EMILIE AUTUMN I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter. JACKSON PEARCE We are becoming the men we wanted to marry GLORIA STEINEM This was her body. She had learned to take pleasure in it, even if no man had ever done the same. It... TESSA DARE I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence... JOSEPH MCCABE People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros... REBECCA WEST I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist. WENDY E. LONG Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th... JOYCE CAROL OATES I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to d... BERYL BAINBRIDGE I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intellige... DARIA WERBOWY I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little ... BERYL BAINBRIDGE
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SARAH GERDES For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the... ROBERT SARAH Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human exist... SARAH DESSEN Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you. SARAH DESSEN If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. SARAH DESSEN It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru... SARAH DESSEN I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix. SARAH OCKLER Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and a... SARAH DESSEN He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't ... SARAH DESSEN Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who c... SARAH DESSEN You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those ... SARAH DESSEN No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to giv... SARAH DESSEN Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple... SARAH DESSEN I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I... SARAH MACLEAN I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he ... SARAH DESSEN All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ... SARAH BERNHARDT Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t... SARAH CALDWELL I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the... SARAH BERNHARDT Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitti... SARAH WILLIAMS For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w... SARAH BERNHARDT The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop... SARAH BERNHARDT The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig... SARAH BERNHARDT New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per... SARAH BERNHARDT You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin... SARAH BERNHARDT America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that... SARAH PALIN We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ... SARAH BERNHARDT As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. SARAH CHURCHILL I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. SARAH BERNHARDT Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ... SARAH CALDWELL There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. SARAH MILES