--- description: President Trump's Senior Counselor said she wasn't classically feminist during a question-and-answer session at CPAC title: Read the Transcript of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks at CPAC image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d0a4fb91c4da611/6988bb9afb4eac6087890e25/kellyanne-conway-mercedes-schlapp-cpac-remarks-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [CPAC](/tag/cpac/) ## CPAC Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read the Transcript of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks at CPAC  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 23, 2017 5:28 PM CUT  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 23, 2017 5:28 PM CUT [Kellyanne Conway](http://time.com/4665182/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-products/ "undefined") spoke about running President Donald Trump’s campaign, working in the White House and shunning the “feminist” label [during the Conservative Political Action Conference](http://motto.time.com/4680131/kellyanne-conway-feminism-cpac/ "undefined") on Thursday. Political commentator Mercedes Schlapp conducted the question and answer session with [Conway](http://time.com/4659303/kellyanne-conway-bowling-green-massacre-donald-trump/ "undefined") during [CPAC’s first day](http://time.com/4679396/cpac-donald-trump-conservatives/ "undefined") in National Harbor, Md. Conway notably espoused her own views about feminism, to applause from the crowd. “It’s difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense — because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly seems to be very pro-abortion. I’m neither anti-male or pro-abortion. There’s an individual feminism, if you will. You make your own choices. I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances. And to me, that’s what conservative feminism is all about.” Read Conway’s full remarks below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680550/kellyanne-conway-cpac-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680550/kellyanne-conway-cpac-transcript/"},"headline":"Read the Transcript of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks at CPAC","datePublished":"2017-02-23T17:28:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:53.244Z","description":"President Trump's Senior Counselor said she wasn't a feminist in the classical sense","url":"https://time.com/4680550/kellyanne-conway-cpac-transcript/","keywords":["CPAC","politics","kellyanne conway","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d0a4fb91c4da611/6988bb9afb4eac6087890e25/kellyanne-conway-mercedes-schlapp-cpac-remarks-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d0a4fb91c4da611/6988bb9afb4eac6087890e25/kellyanne-conway-mercedes-schlapp-cpac-remarks-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"kellyanne conway mercedes schlapp CPAC remarks transcript","caption":"kellyanne conway mercedes schlapp CPAC remarks transcript","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/cpac/","name":"CPAC"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4680550/kellyanne-conway-cpac-transcript/","name":"Read the Transcript of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks at CPAC"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"President Trump's Senior Counselor said she wasn't a feminist in the classical sense","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4680550/kellyanne-conway-cpac-transcript/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4680550/kellyanne-conway-cpac-transcript/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```