Quotes About Feminism

I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

Femininity and sport can go together.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

Regardless of how pretty a woman is, looks alone will not sustain his respect. Appearance may pull him in, but it is your independence that will keep him turned on.

To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn't a compliment to a woman, it's more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.

I do not like the idea of bartering the use of my reproductive system for a man's support...

when gentlemen stare at my bosom, they don't hear a word I say. I strongly believe that if trees sprouted breasts tomorrow, they would soon be wearing wedding rings.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

The law cannot do the major part of the job of winning equality for women. Women must do it themselves. Against them is arrayed the weight of centuries of tradition, from St. Paul's "Let women learn in silence" down to the American adage "A woman's place is in the home." Women have been persuaded of their own inferiority.

I wish we hadn't picked up the idea that you were a failure if you didn't have a man because then you would be without status and protection.

Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and the shrews are to be avoided. [p. 74]

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. To so heighten one's sensitivity to sexism presents problems far worse than the black militant's new awareness of racism: Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature.

Demek ki kad?n?n baÅŸlang?çta ve sonraki ezilmesine yol açan ÅŸey doÄŸurgan bedensel yap?s?d?r.

Tap?lmak, özgür olmak demek deÄŸildir. Çünkü tap?nma eylemi baÅŸka birisinin kafas?nda olmakt?r; o kafa da Erkek kafas?d?r. Böylece tarih boyunca, kültürün her evresi ve her türünde, kad?nlar bedensel iÅŸlevleri yüzünden ezilmiÅŸlerdir.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their condition.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

A] woman, working fulltime in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

But the main reason why we cannot enjoy the pleasure that sexuality may provide is that for women sex is work . Giving pleasure to man is an essential part of what is expected of every woman.

It is essential to emphasize that violence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.

Uma vez mais, muito da violência empregada é dirigida contra as mulheres, porque, na era do computador, a conquista do corpo feminino continua sendo uma precondição para a acumulação de trabalho e riqueza, tal como demonstra o investimento institucional no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias reprodutivas que, mais do que nunca, reduzem as mulheres a meros ventres.