Quotes About Feminism

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.

It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.

It was a feminist act, revealing secrets in order to free herself and the women of her clan from the silence and obscurity to which a misogyny thousands of years old would have relegated them.

the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies. Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral, offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say: i only know how to exist when i'm wanted girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good.

The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.

I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.

I still insist that not only the virtue but the knowledge of the two sexes should be the same in nature, if not in degree, and that women, considered not only as moral but rational creatures, ought to endeavour to acquire human virtues (or perfections) by the same means as men, instead of being educated like a fanciful kind of half being [...].

As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not "radical feminism," which the Vatican accuses Catholic sisters in America of, but "radical patriarchy.

American women are evolving backward--becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.

Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but until they have the same anatomy, it's a lie. It's more of a man's world today than ever. Men can eat their cake in unlimited bakeries.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a saint. You're a bitch.