Quotes About Feminism

a transição para o capitalismo é uma questão primordial para a teoria feminista, já que a redefinição das tarefas produtivas e reprodutivas e as relações homem-mulher nesse período, ambas realizadas com máxima violência e intervenção estatal, não deixam dúvidas quanto ao caráter construído dos papéis sexuais na sociedade capitalista.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around.

And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure?

Los patriarcas nos defraudan. No ven y no escuchan. Suelen permanecer ciegos y hacer oídos sordos a las mujeres, se pavonean, alardean y actúan como si no estuviéramos allí. Y no siempre son hombres. A veces son mujeres, también ciegas que se odian a sí mismas. Están atrapadas en los hábitos perceptivos de los siglos, en las expectativas que han llegado a gobernar su mente.

The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.

Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover.

Of course women are sexual objects; so are men. Even while I was hugging that book of feminist rhetoric to my chest, I groomed myself carefully, zipped myself into tight jeans, and went after the boy I wanted most, mentally picking apart desirable male bodies like a connoisseur.

Sexual feeling is distinct from affection, even though they often conspire, but this fact runs against the grain of classic feminist arguments.

American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie Chicks.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.

Solange Gott ein Mann ist, nicht ein Paar, kann das Leben einer Frau, nur so bleiben wie es heute ist, nämlich erbärmlich, die Frau als Proletarier der Schöpfung, wenn auch noch so elegant verkleidet.

She's an aristocrat who advocates –words worn across centuries—for women's rights.

Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

You're my daughter. Don't take tea for the fever. You are your own woman.