Quotes About Feminism

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!

Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! I

I really do not mind walking two paces behind a man, you know—if only I can find one who can walk two paces faster than I! It is being tied at the knees by convention I hate—and having to pretend I am lame to suit someone else's vanity.

Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life

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She'd teach him nineteen different ways to spell matriarchy.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.