Quotes About Feminism

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. Woman's sexual glamour has bewitched and destroyed men since Delilah and Helen of Troy.

Current feminism, with its antiscience and social constructionist bias, never thinks about nature. Hence it cannot deal with sex, which begins in the body and is energized by instinctual drives.

Candace Bushnell

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy.

a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle

Toisinaan minusta tuntuu, että kaikki maailman ikävyydet johtuvat miehistä. Jollei miehiä olisi, naiset olisivat jatkuvasti onnellisia.

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.

Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester.

Especially for upwardly mobile young females, declaring one's enthusiasm for Austen (whose heroines almost always move up in social and economic status as a result of the sterling marital alliances they form) has been a classic means of indicating one's purported good taste, good breeding, and good sense: I am an especially adorable member of the ruling class.

Those who can think up feminism or structuralism; those who can't apply such insights to Moby Dick or The Cat in the Hat.

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

Being a witch is a man's job: that's why it needs women to do it.

Cum mulieribus non est disputandum, as Cicero says.

And pockets! With pockets women could conquer the world!

How can you expect women to exercise their faculties, nay, their rights, in clothes that confine them? We shall never be men's equals while we lace ourselves into ill health and drape ourselves in fabric until we can scarcely move. Dress reform is almost as important to our cause as the vote.

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing!

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should fight for each woman to be free to choose who she wants to be.

I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.

In the industry, I am judged by what I wear. If I want to be taken seriously, I have to hire a team of stylists. It's an occupational hazard. But it's not as though I am any less of a feminist.

Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits.