Quotes About Feminism

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.

Don't be a lady, be a legend.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Feminist Fables] uses the very power of language and the literary tradition to expose what is absurd and unacceptable.

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Make [your employers] understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

As Beauvoir remarked, "It is not easy to play the idol, the fairy, the faraway princess, when one feels a bloody cloth between one's legs; and, more generally, when one is conscious of the primitive misery of being a body.

WITCH. The useful acronym stood for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, but it could also mean Women Inspired to Tell their Collective History, Women Interested in Toppling Consumer Holidays, and a host of imaginative variations. Proclaiming that witches were the original female rebels, hounded, persecuted, and burned at the stake because they had knowledge that men wanted suppressed, WITCH devoted itself to hit-and-run guerrilla theater, called "zaps.

In one year, 1975, thirty states overhauled their rape laws to make them more equitable to victims. Between 1970, when the feminist movement first started to talk about rape, and 1979, when the militance had receded, every state in the union went through a serious reevaluation of its rape codes and made significant adjustments.

I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.