Quotes About Feminism

Joan Rivers was my hero.

Ali reversed the decision in a second fight with Joe Frazier. That's what would happen if I played Billie Jean again.

I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis.

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Imagine you're a writer, and you have decided to offer your readers a firsthand account of the politically correct primate, the idol of the left, known for its "gay" relations, female supremacy, and pacific lifestyle. Your focus is the bonobo: a close relation of the chimpanzee. You

turns out that feminists don't want equality. What they want is power and the privilege to define ambiguous situations that comes with it.

Et depuis quand les évêques s'y connaissent-ils en femmes? —Très longue histoire. La nuit des temps —répondit l'évêque.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.

She wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, 'cuz stuff needed to be kicked.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

Le plus dur, c'est d'être femme. Etre femme et aspirer à autre chose que de passer sa vie dans la cuisine. Autrement dit: avoir du courage, oser aller plus loin.

and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

From lapsing into eagerness on this point she earnestly prayed she might be delivered; she held that a woman ought to be able to live to herself, in the absence of exceptional flimsiness, and that it was perfectly possible to be happy without the society of a more or less coarse-minded person of another sex.

I don't see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself. I don't want to begin life by marrying. There are other things a woman can do.

I never congratulate any girl on marrying; I think they ought to make it somehow not quite so awful a steel trap.

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.