Betty Buckley Quotes

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

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.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

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

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

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.

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

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.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.