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Quotes About Feminism

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.
~ Himani Shivpuri
There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.
~ St. Vincent
We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.
~ Miriam Schapiro
My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
~ Frances McDormand
There's this ridiculous idea that I'm a gender traitor because I'm not a feminist. I'm supposed to be part of a sisterhood: you're automatically supposed to support all women just because you have the same genitals as them, which doesn't make sense.
~ Lauren Southern
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
~ Gloria Steinem
Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.
~ Patricia Arquette
It seems the feminists are all about female freedom of expression so long as the female is overweight or transgender. You can't pick and choose what type of women fit your agenda.
~ Tomi Lahren
I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.
~ Bozoma Saint John
Now y'all know it's to many of y'all. GS told me to bring up the baddest female in the house.
~ Sister Souljah
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
~ Socrates
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
~ Sojourner Truth
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
~ Sojourner Truth
If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
~ Sojourner Truth
You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway
~ Sojourner Truth
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
~ Sonia Johnson
La fantasia dell'uomo è l'arma migliore della donna.
~ Sophia Loren
Dragostea este un mister pentru mine deocamdata. La noi se vorbeste despre casatorie, nu despre dragoste. Despre ascultare si supunere totala, nu despre relatii de iubire intre barbat si femeie. Doar despre o relatie sexuala obligatorie intre o fecioara si sotul ei, pentru care a fost cumparata. Altminteri, uitarea sau moartea. Atunci unde e iubirea?
~ Souad
Spice Girls (Group)
~ Girl Power!
Being drunk in public was inexcusable for a woman. One annual report of the Board of Police Justices bluntly stated that "public exhibitions of drunkenness in females indicate a depraved and abandoned condition," while men were sometimes let off the hook because in their case there were often "circumstances to be taken in mitigation of punishment which rarely exist in cases of females.
~ Stacy Horn
As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.
~ Stacy Schiff
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.
~ Stacy Schiff