Quotes About Feminism

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

I think a big part of feminism - and this is something I'm sure a bunch of women will take my head off for - but a big part of feminism is women allowing other women to just be the kind of women that they are.

Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.

No. 1, women should be in the bedroom. No. 2, get to the kitchen. No. 3, support the man, support the king.

I want men to see that women aren't only good in the kitchen, but can play cricket too.

I don't connect with shows where we have women looking ultra-glamorous all the time, including in the kitchen.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away in women's hearts and minds for millennia. Historically, women have either been reduced to nothing but their sexuality or stripped of it entirely: the Madonna or the whore.

it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

This is something every girl should know in addition to sewing on a button and applying mascara correctly. Before I know it, I'm asking her, 'If you had a daughter what would you tell her?' Mrs. Dupree smiles. 'Oh let me think.' she says. 'Well, I would say that every time you buy a new blouse or some wrinkle cream to make you look good, go and buy a book right away. It's just as important to keep your mind beautiful, don't you think?

I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

It's unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As

Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a kind of exorcism against "saleslady," "old lady," "ladylike." Relishing the anachronism, even the formality a type of aphrodisiac, a contrast to our delight in the horny, the vulgar, the vernacular which we cultivate just as ardently.