899 Quotes About Feminist

My feminism is inherent. It's not a trait, adjective, label or by-line but an orientation towards the world.

I've made it my mission to be an ally to women in this generation, to break down misogynistic stereotypes, remove walls that divide them, and create a community grounded in us supporting one another. In my experience as a young women, a female business owner, a daughter, sister, and friend, I've learned the being a feminist isn't your own voice, but how you use your stage to encourage and support other women to find theirs.

Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to get involved, or like you won't be that impactful. But no matter how small the gesture, it is still powerful, and you are making a difference.

But I suppose the difference is, you hadn't felt any limitations or frustrations before that, whereas I was already angry by twenty.

Why are those characters running and jumping, and that girl character is watching and giggling at the side?Why, when I was at school, were no celebrated scientists, musicians, or playwrights, women? Why are we only taught about the achievements of men?Why, when women unite and come together with their voices raised, does the term 'witch hunt' get bandied around?Why are some of my natural characteristics referred to as 'tomboy'?

In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in a conversation, in split seconds, in quit determined moments.

Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity.

We so often write about how gender limits us, whereas perhaps a better approach is to think about what we can achieve in spite of the way society limits us through its construction of gender norms.

No matter who you are, if in your mind you are born a girl, you will grow to be a women through experience. It is not a biological process, it is not losing your virgnity, it is not giving birth or raising children, nor is it a thing that can be calculated or defined: it is a staggeringly ineffable, gorgeous uphill battle from chaos towards a chosen selfhood of contentment, self-belief, self-love, and empowerment.