Women's Movement Quotes
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She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.
— Christopher Poindexter
We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.
— Angela Y. Davis
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
— Charlotte Bunch
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
— Ellen Goodman
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
— Constance Baker Motley
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
— Amit Ray
I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.
— Manolo Blahnik
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
— Warren Beatty
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
— Carol P. Christ
The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.
— Darrel Ray
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
— Nora Ephron
Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history.
— Stasi Eldredge
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
— Bell Hooks
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
— Susan Sullivan
Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?
— Bob Hope
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
— J. Courtney Sullivan
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
— Karen DeCrow
The women's movement has not found a way to reconnect comfortably with the religious impulse that was central to its origin.
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
— Cathleen Schine
There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them
— Leo Booth
When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
— Marianne Williamson
The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
— Natasha Leggero
The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
— Grace Paley
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
— Emma Goldman
The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.
— David Suzuki
Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
— Carlos Andres Gomez
Women's movement has an effect on potency.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
— Katori Hall
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
— Margot Robbie
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
— Holly Near
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.
— Bell Hooks
According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
— Jessica Valenti
If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.
— Beatrice Faust
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
— Foxy Brown
Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?
— Bell Hooks
There's always been a women's movement this century!
— Mary Stott
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
— Robin Morgan
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
— Michelle Shocked
The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.
— Helen Fisher
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
— Andrea Dworkin
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
— Norman Mailer
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
— Margaret Fuller
The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.
— Amber Heard
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
— Gloria Steinem
I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.
— Marisa Tomei
The women's movement ... has proved women's own worst enemy.
— Susan Faludi
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
— Zainab Salbi