Quotes About Feminism

Women were created to be like flowers, providing color and beauty to the world. We leave troubling matters to men.

Erotica celebrates women and sexuality. Pornography violates women and demeans sex.

I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children;

Laws institutionalized men's unfounded superiority over women by defining marriage as ownership

Charlotte Bunch writes that if one ethnic national group were attacking another, killing and maiming them at the same rate as men attack and kill women (and she is speaking only of attacks by intimates), the situation would be held to constitute a state of emergency or even war. But domestic violence is only one campaign in what amounts to a widespread war against women.

Feminista trágica —porque su lucha es individual, más intuitiva que lógica, contradictoria porque busca lo que rechaza, y condenada al fracaso—, en Emma late íntimamente el deseo de ser hombre.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women .

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

I read "The Second Sex." Simone explained that if women peed standing up, their perception of life would change. So I tried. It ran lightly down my left leg. It was a little disgusting. Seated, it was much simpler. And as an Iranian woman, before learning to urinate like a man, I needed to learn to become a liberated and emancipated woman.

J'ai lu le Deuxième Sexe. Simone expliquait que si les femmes faisaient pipi debout, leur conception de la vie changerait. Alors j'ai essayé. Ça coulait légèrement sur ma jambe gauche. C'était un peu dégoutant. Assise, c'était bien plus simple. De pus, en tant qu'iranienne, avant d'uriner comme un homme, il fallait que j'apprenne à devenir une femme libérée et émancipée.

And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands virginity from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!

Shall a woman be flayed alive because it is unfeminine in her to fight for her own skin?

They say women are to vote, and become doctors, and if so, there's no knowing what devil's tricks they mayn't do.

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.

It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda.

It was made clear that sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy were simply not for us: We were to use birth control and go to college and if we somehow got pregnant too soon or with the wrong guy, we were to abort. There was no mention of the possibility that we might want to get pregnant too late.

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland…those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be neither oppressor nor oppressed.

It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.

Bohemya Krall???'n? tehdit eden büyük bir skandal?n ve Sherlock Holmes'un bir kad?n?n zekas?na yenilmesinin hikayesiydi bu. O günden beri bir daha kad?nlar?n zekas?yla ilgili espriler yapt???n? duymad?m. Ayr?ca Irene Adler'den veya fotoÄŸraf?ndan her zaman övgüyle söz etti.

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.