Quotes About Feminism

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Traditionally, common social location meant that the two partners used the same family name. In recent years alternative patterns of naming have been developed, for reasons which are more convincing to feminists than they are to genealogists or to mail carriers.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women's rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.

Unfortunately, though, even in our own time, the stigma that can attach to the cleverest person in the room sometimes intensifies if that person happens to be a woman. To imagine that Fuller could conduct herself as she did and never run afoul of gender prejudice is fanciful. To suppose that such biases were alone responsible for her troubles is equally so.

Like Virginia Woolf said, every woman writer needs five hundred pounds a year and a room of one's own.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

feminist theology today, a primary aim of their theology was practical. They wanted to move Church and society to accountability, humanness, justice, virtue, and peace.

There is nothing more galling than for a stupid man to be lording it over us women merely because of his masculinity. Let him stew. It will not be he who solves this puzzle, be sure.

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman.

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman. It used to astound me when sensible people said otherwise.

So why a woman did the same should be judged different … well, women always is. Judged different, I mean.

I could tell Madame was included in that "girls," and it put my back up. She had years and miles on Dyer Stone, and brains to boot. But he had a prick, and inherited money, and a prick.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.