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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

  June Jordan

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• I would say that I’m a feminist theorist before I’m a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

  Judith Butler

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• Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

  Judy Chicago

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• I’m a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

  Bob Hoskins

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• I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

  Jackson Pearce

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• I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.

  Amber Heard

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• You can’t be a woman and not be a feminist, I don’t think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

  Sally Hawkins

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• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  Jackee Harry

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• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  Jackee Harry

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• I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there’s nothing feminist about that.

  Rebecca Hall

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• I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

  Katori Hall

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• I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it’s all about have gotten into their heads.

  Julie Courtney Sullivan

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• The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn’t an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

  Patti Smith

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• Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation… none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

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• I was in college in the ’60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  Laura Schlessinger

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• Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

  Paula Cole

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• Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

  Bill Griffith

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• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn’t believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  Betty Buckley

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• I still consider myself a feminist.

  Suzanne Vega

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• It’s such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it’s just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

  Gemma Arterton

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