Quotes About Feminism

Les femmes ne sont pas solidaires en tant que sexe : elles sont d'abord liées à leur classe. Les intérêts des bourgeoises et ceux des femmes prolétaires ne se recoupent pas.

Bourgeoises, elles sont solidaires des bourgeois et non des femmes prolétaires ; blanches des hommes blancs et non des femmes noires

Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.

ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

In the unfertilised egg not even the concept of femaleness is as yet established. As Hegel justly remarks the sexual relation cannot be referred back to the relation of the gametes. It is our duty, then, to study the female organism as a whole.

Muži sú tyrani... Zaobchádzajú s nami ako s hra?kami... robia si z nás prá?ky a kuchárky.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito. La cosa paradossale è che mi accorsi di questa deficienza proprio nel momento in cui scoprivo la mia individualità: la mia pretesa al'universale fin allora mi era apparsa ovvi, e invece, ecco che diveniva un tratto di carattere. Simone si interessa di tutto. Mi trovavo delimitata dal mio rifiuto dei limiti.

Rodi?ia eÅ¡te vychovávajú svoje dcéry radÅ¡ej pre manželstvo, než by podporovali ich osobný rozvoj. A žena v ?om vidí to?ko výhod, že po ?om sama túži.

Nature does not define woman: it is she who defines herself by reclaiming nature for herself in her affectivity.

Le plus médiocre des mâles se croit en face des femmes un demi-dieu.

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

Every time we lobbied them for the right to choose whether or not we will have children, we acknowledged that men owned us.

I also knew that, though I had never cared much what others thought of me and what I did, I would care even less in the future. And I realized that for the women's movement to succeed, many women had to be similarly free, not just from the terror of breaking taboos, but from the garden-variety fear of social disapproval as well.

nd that, in a thimble, is patriarchy. Mary Daly puts it more elegantly and succinctly: "As long as god is male," she says, "the male is God." Which is why changing our view of God has everything to do with changing the world.

One of the most insistent messages from my inner voice in the last few years reaffirms the feminist revelation that among the myriad hoaxes of men, the biggest and most basic is what we are socialized to perceive as real.

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

Quinby thinks George W. Bush is evil, to some degree, because he has a penis.

Indeed, if they had read Moubayed's article, what might have struck them most is that they appeared only as a supporting cast, their safety and well-being hardly given a nod to. The thrust of the argument was that prostitution should be accepted because it benefits men. Nor was Moubayed's flip remark to me about the material obsessions of "nagging" women an Oscar-winning moment.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.