Feminism Quotes
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Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
— Iris Marion Young
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
— Aristophanes
After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America. -Elizabeth Bisland
— Matthew Goodman
I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
— Henry James
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
— Melanie Klein
I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.
— Justine Larbalestier
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.
— Sophia Amoruso
I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
Society will not crumble if men take a turn at the dishes.
— Linda P. Rouse
Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.
— Allan G. Johnson
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
— Germaine Greer
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
— Bell Hooks
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
— Mary Harris Jones
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men's boots in bad weather
— Henrik Ibsen
It is an extravagant gesture,' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.
— Kamy Wicoff
It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.
— Eve Ensler
A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man. -Nellie Bly
— Matthew Goodman
When God made man she was practicing.
— Rita Mae Brown
If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
— Sojourner Truth
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
— Catherine Of Siena
Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day.
— Benoite Groult
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.
— Nenia Campbell
Because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her
— Terry Gilliam
Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!
— Robert Thier
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
— Caitlin Moran
There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
— Kathleen Hanna
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
— Marilyn French
America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.
Sarah Mullen — Erin Passons
Sarah Mullen — Erin Passons
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— G.K. Chesterton
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You know it's very important, the role of a mother ... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.
— Carine Roitfeld
As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down.
— Irene Ziegler
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.
— Pamela Anderson
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
— Rush Limbaugh
BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.
— Emma Watson
The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.
— Shannon L. Alder
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
— Carol Gilligan
There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
— Kate Atkinson
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
— Erica Jong
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
— Rebecca West
You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.
— Gillian Flynn
The actual handbag is neither here nor there
it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing. — Caitlin Moran
it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing. — Caitlin Moran
It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they'd been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country
— Will Schwalbe
I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
— Caitlin Moran
Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.
— Aysha Taryam
I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.
— Philippa Gregory
So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
— E. Lockhart
Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.
— Simone De Beauvoir
II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
— Vita Sackville-West
They always always understimate women
— Susan Ee
Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair. — Mie Hansson
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair. — Mie Hansson
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two ... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
— Doris Lessing
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.
— Jessica Valenti
I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.
— Emma Donoghue
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
— Julianna Baggott
The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
— Laurie Penny
Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.
— Karen L. Garst
He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.
— Ellen Kushner
The problem with a lot of feminist works is that they tend to take the "feminine" out of "feminism.
— H.L. Grey
Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it's not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.
— Lilit Marcus
Life is a big battle for the complete feminist ...
— Crystal Eastman
If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.
— Lauren Willig
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
— Maggie Young
I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
— Ice-T
I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
— Annie Lennox
She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.
— Rebecca Coleman
I find feminism in smiles of a country girl not in Woolf's artworks.
— Ali Rezavand Zayeri
What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.
— Agatha Christie
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
— Jessica Valenti
Not all men rape. Some molest and others observe!
— Abhishek Leela Pandey
I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!
— Gayathri Jayakumar
Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled. — Michelle Moran
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled. — Michelle Moran
life's better with girls. boys need girls.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
— Rachel Hunter
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
— Andrea Dworkin
But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.
— Bill Maher
Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
— Caitlin Moran