Quotes About Feminism

Life is too short to listen to a MAN to tell me how to live it.

While the melodrama of hucking crates of tea into Boston Harbor continues to inspire civic-minded hotheads to this day, it's worth remembering the hordes of stoic colonial women who simply swore off tea and steeped basil leaves in boiling water to make the same point. What's more valiant: littering from a wharf or years of doing chores and looking after children from dawn to dark without caffeine?

Frances tänkte inte be om ursäkt. Bättre att vara som jag, tänkte hon, än att vara gift. Hellre ungmö än trångsynt tjänstemannafru!

I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.

I'm not used to wearing heels,' she moaned. 'They hurt and they're patriarchal signifiers designed to cripple women and stop them from taking big strides through life.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

My mother was ahead of her time as a woman.

I'm like, "Let me marry a feminist, let's do this thing." It's about time men should show up and say, "Yes, she should have access to whatever she needs."

What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

It's a good time to be a woman.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you'll-be-free bullshit

Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.

If you can fight, you don't have to fight. And you don't have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say.

Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?