Rebecca Traister Quotes

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

This is our historical task … To make evident that the category “woman” as well as the category “man” are political and economic categories and not eternal ones. Our aim is to suppress men as a class, not through a genocidal, but a political struggle. Once the class “man” disappears, “woman” as a class will disappear as well, for there are no slaves without masters.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space.

I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

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.

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

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.