Creativity Quote by Suzanne Vega

A small sentence that carries the fatigue of having to keep reintroducing yourself. When Suzanne Vega says, "I still consider myself a feminist", the keyword is still: a quiet signal that the label has been treated as something you outgrow, apologize for, or retire when the cultural weather shifts. It reads less like a manifesto than a refusal to be bullied by trend cycles.

Vega comes out of an era when women singer-songwriters were routinely flattened into categories: confessional, fragile, "girl with a guitar". Her work has always been sharper than that, full of city detail and moral attention. In that context, feminism isn’t a brand flourish; it’s a way of insisting on full authorship - over the songs, the voice, the story, the body attached to it. The line also nods to the long-running bait-and-switch of pop culture, where people praise empowered women while rolling their eyes at the word that names the politics.

The subtext is defensive without sounding defensive: a preemptive answer to the interviewer’s implied question, the one that asks whether feminism has become embarrassing, too angry, too "second-wave", too online. Vega’s tone, as phrased here, is deliberately plain. No hashtag pep, no scolding. Just continuity. In a moment when feminism gets repackaged into aesthetics or reduced to outrage, her insistence lands as something sturdier: an identity you maintain, not a pose you perform.