Cory Booker Quotes

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

How can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

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.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

American women don't need to be lectured about values by men in Washington.

Topple the Patriarchy

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to.

My husband is a feminist!

I'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward.

When women speak out and say there is a problem, the answer is not, 'No there isn't.'

It's 2015. And I just want to get to the point where we're hearing female voices as much as we're hearing men's.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.