Quotes About Feminism

Arkie took a dim view of patriarchal institutions - religion, capitalism, marriage. She liked to quote one of her professors at a woman's college: "He has to be a very good husband to e better than no husband at all.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

It can take a while, sometimes, to be the woman you want to be, and to excavate the misogyny or critical eye we too often internalise

Today our news media is bombarded by bare-chested "feminists" yowling in the streets proclaiming their rights to murder their children in their wombs, their rights to have intimate relations with each other, and oddly enough, that they have "equal rights and dignity with men." Notice, too, if we watch the decline of morals in our society, the acceptance of public nudity and immodesty begin to escalate.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Fátima regañaba a Clara por su tozudez al negarse a tener hijos. —Tu marido te dejará con el tiempo, o traerá otra mujer a la casa para que le dé hijos. —El mundo ha cambiado, Fátima, los hombres quieren otras cosas, no sólo hijos, y yo estoy muy cerca de tocar un sueño con las manos. Ahora no puedo quedarme embarazada, no podría excavar.

But what attracts me to the study of confidence is that it is something women can address themselves, individually and immediately.

My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

Gender inequality is a global issue that affects everyone.

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

Women are inferior to none.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.

I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.

Alanis Morissette - I think she's one of my biggest inspirations.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

I was 10 when the Equal Pay Act was passed. It was pretty inspiring stuff.

I always found growing up that, even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in TV and film... I often found that their complexity was actually just another facet of their sexuality.

I believe that feminism needs to teach more girls about how to make institutional changes and how to further engage men and boys into being our allies.