Cool Feminist Quotes & Sayings

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation. — Brenden Morrow

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel. — Kathleen Hanna

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty. — Erma Bombeck

Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I used to try to be cool. I said things that I didn't believe about other people, and celebrities, and myself; I wrote mean jokes for cheap, "edgy" laughs; I neglected good friendships for shallow one; I insisted I wasn't a feminist; I nodded along with casual misogyny in hopes that shitty dudes would like me. — Lindy West

The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the thoat's broad back. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right, philosophy will never be a quick fix. Its influence is slow, the result of patient questioning and discussion. — Jonathan Glover

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it. — Jimmy Connors

You're going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you've committed, see if you can come to grips with them, — Isabel Allende

He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote. — Genna Rulon

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. — Tom Hayden

Life is unpredictable.
We can not tell will happen in a minute.
We have no control of tomorrow and it's details.
Live a careful life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people. — Max Lucado

Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body, nature, technological change, popular culture, and democracy. Oh, and I forgot to mention sex. And sports. And Andy Warhol. But other than that, I'm cool with whatever the kids are into. Really! — Mary Gordon

The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out." — Kathleen Hanna

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true. — Lena Dunham

It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word feminist! — Kathleen Hanna

The real, by which I mean God, continues to remain unfathomable. — Czeslaw Milosz

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director. — Melanie Griffith

No, I love Montreal ... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me ... I love the food there. — Kathy Griffin

But more than anything, as a little girl, I wanted to be exactly like Miss Piggy. She was ma heroine. I was a plucky little girl, but I never related to the rough-and-tumble icons of children's lit, like Pippi Longstocking or Harriet the Spy. Even Ramona Quimby, who seemed cool, wasn't somebody I could super-relate to. She was scrawny and scrappy and I was soft and sarcastic. I connected instead to Miss - never 'Ms.' - Piggy; the comedienne extraordinaire who'd alternate eye bats with karate chops, swoon over girly stuff like chocolate, perfume, feather boas or random words pronounced in French, then, on a dmie, lower her voice to 'Don't fuck with me, fellas' decibel when slighted. She was hugely feminine, boldly ambitious, and hilariously violent when she didn't get way, whether it was in work, love, or life. And even though she was a pig puppet voiced by a man with a hand up her ass, she was the fiercest feminist I'd ever seen. — Julie Klausner

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. — Ernest Holmes