Pop Feminism Quotes & Sayings

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi. — Johnny Depp

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you — Lindy West

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. — Aldo Leopold

She didn't want anyone reading her impermanent thoughts after she had permanently left the planet. — Wendy Wunder

You've always been in here", he says, patting his chest over his heart. "We just hadn't met yet. — S.L. Scott

Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened. — King James I

[H]e asked Renee, "What does rock and roll have today that it didn't have in the sixties?" Renee said, "Tits," which in retrospect strikes me as not a bad one-word off-the-dome answer at all. The nineties fad for indie rock overlapped precisely with the nineties fad for feminism. The idea of a pop culture that was pro-girl, or even just not anti-girl
that was a 1990s mainstream dream, rather than a 1980s or 2000s one, and it was real for a while. Music was not just part of it but leading the way
hard to believe, hard even to remember. But some of us do. — Rob Sheffield

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman. — Iggy Pop

Great warriors are not made overnight. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't know if it was the cold sincerity in my voice or the shock of being straddled by a wild, mud covered woman, but he didn't try to argue. Give me your ring. Now. — Heather James

Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. — Rebecca Solnit

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm. — Marisa Meltzer

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. — Mary Karr

Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus — Emma Cline

They call her love, love, love, love, love. She is love, and she is all I need. — Parachute Band

Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable. — Joel Fuhrman

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits. — J.K. Rowling