Quotes About Feminism

And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after , I find offensive.

He refills my drink without me having to ask, somehow ferreting out one last cup of the good stuff. He has claimed me, placed a flag in me: I was here first, she's mine, mine. It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.

So all these extras, they're just bonus fuck-yous. Amusing booby traps. I love that I am a woman with booby traps.

We're all bitches in the end, aren't we...

You'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

I like strong women' is code for 'I hate strong women.

I love that I am a woman with booby traps.

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

after feminist politics and the age of the New Man … no one knows what's going on anymore' (Sierz 2001: 191). This

She'd done her face, I guessed, in the hasty, automatic way of women who don't need to slap it on like warpaint.

Machine guns, missile launchers, grappling hooks and cables—what more could a girl want?

Women's rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman - has seemed less and less an attractive proposition.