Feminism Quotes
Quotes about Feminism
55 quotes
- “And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic...” — Florence Converse
- “many efforts on bahalf of of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be...” — Carol J. Adams
- “We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create wh...” — Judith Butler
- “I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious inte...” — Jacqueline Rose
- “Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that p...” — Frederick The Great
- “If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preced...” — Lillie Devereux Blake
- “What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than procreation are ...” — Leora Tanenbaum
- “Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often liv...” — Allan G. Johnson
- “Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is ...” — Peter Wilkes
- “I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to f...” — Mo Hayder
- “[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fe...” — Susan Brownmiller
- “What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she sa...” — Ruth Park
- “I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attai...” — Jamie Le Fay
- “I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman...” — Cherie Priest
- “I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women...” — Sarah Moss
- “There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.” — Jessa Crispin
- “blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.” — Cordelia Fine
- “I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.” — Sarah Zettel
- “What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.” — Barbara Strickland
- “I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.” — Cecilia Beaux
- “She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart.” — Judith Ortiz Cofer
- “Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.” — Linda P. Rouse
- “all of the oceans& galaxiesdid notconspire together tocreate mejust so i couldreproduce for you.-Startling Fact #1” — Amanda Lovelace
- “One Nice Guy asked me, "If a man is talking in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?” — Robert Glover
- “She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called a deity.” — Kate Gordon
- “Men are minded to conjure the most extraordinary tales about women who would question their place in the world.” — L.m. Myles
- “No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.” — Celia Gilbert
- “...you see what you wantand you want what you see,but if I have anything to say about it, that willnever beme.” — Holly Bodger
- “Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies.” — Jenny Nordberg
- “The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.” — Panashe Chigumadzi
- “I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.” — Lyndsay Faye
- “In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you” — Lindy West
- “Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.” — Victoria Thompson
- “The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.” — Bella Abzug
- “People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.” — Sallie Krawcheck
- “Same thing now; my freedom had to be paired with availability, or else it became a disorder.” — Sophie Fontanel
- “Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?” — Cat Winters
- “I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.” — Cecil Taylor
- “Men so often became stubborn when they didn't get their way with the ladies in their lives.” — Brianna Labuskes
- “because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her” — Terry Gilliam
- “It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.” — Warren Farrell
- “And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.” — Richard M. Sherman
- “In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.” — Nancy Mairs
- “I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.” — Kay Mills
- “Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression.” — Nocturnus Libertus
- “I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.” — Patricia V. Davis
- “Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?” — Ariel Levy
- “Just beacause I'm wearing revealing clothes doesn't mean I'm inviting them to look.” — Cora Reilly
- “. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.” — Kim Gordon
- “If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.” — Judith Tarr