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Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it. — Annie Lennox

Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body — Malebo Sephodi

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

Why couldn't a girl take over the kingdom? I dunno. It's stupid, but that's how it was. — Rick Riordan

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame. — Laurie Penny

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. — Gloria Steinem

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it. — Melanie Klein

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle. — Agnes Varda

There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend. — Catherine Doyle

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man. — Shannon Celebi

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size. — Cassandra Duffy

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women ... — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. — Bette Davis

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism. — Bell Hooks

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain. — Katherine Boo

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 became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song. — Eve Ensler

Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons. — George R R Martin

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior. — Crystal Eastman

You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth. — A.S. King

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.

(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) — Robert Southey

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that's the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride. — Joyce Carol Oates

At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice. — Jennifer Baumgardner

Don't ever compliment me by insulting other women. That's not a compliment, it's a competition none of us agreed to. — Anonymous

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny — Dennis Prager

I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse. — Mie Hansson

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings — Bonnie Greer

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. — Camille Paglia

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. — Alison Weir

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism. — Kathleen Hanna

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

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. — William Collins

Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it. — Jess

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

It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things
their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies. — Siobhan Vivian

Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further — Nikhil Sharda

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word. — Siobhan Fahey

Feminism is what I do with my life, it's how I spend my days, it's my job, it's not just an opinion I have among many other opinions. — Jaclyn Friedman

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be. — Jessica Valenti

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine. — Gina Barreca

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it's funny, because it's so completely random to me. It's senseless. — Joss Whedon

We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives. — Jane Fonda

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. — Hilary Mantel

All men are rapists and that's all they are — Marilyn French

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. — Gloria Steinem

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself. — Lynn Cullen

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you. — Danielle Valenilla

I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain. — Jamie Le Fay

Women's history is the
primary tool for women's emancipation. — Gerda Lerner

ou know chicks before dicks. Never choose a guy over a friend. It's one of the most important rules of feminism. — Rosalind Wiseman

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. — Valentine De Saint-Point

Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives — Kameron Hurley

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

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple. — Joss Whedon

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism. — Florence King

But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are. — Margaret Atwood

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices. — Hanna Rosin

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world. — Kathleen Hanna

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. — Nancy Friday

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE. — Kristin Hannah

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

The actual handbag is neither here nor there
it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing. — Caitlin Moran

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

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. — Jane Austen

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

I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look! — Gayathri Jayakumar

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

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

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

Woman's cause is one and universal ... — Anna Julia Cooper

The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other. — Carolyn Custis James

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. — Virginia Petrucci

Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember. — Caitlin Moran

blessed be
she
who is
both
furious
and
magnificent — Taylor Rhodes

But see, feminism isn't about helping a fellow sister. It's about an equal playing field. It's about giving women choices, not guarantees." Tia — Harlan Coben

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual. — Kenny Loggins

Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially-- except sex. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading. — Will Advise

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort. — Nellie L. McClung

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. — Susan Faludi

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. — Ani DiFranco

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house — Audre Lorde

Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies. — Jenny Nordberg

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's. — Marianne Faithfull

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available. — Anne Elizabeth Moore

society's been drugging its women for years — Elizabeth Strout

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world. — Sina Queyras