Quotes About Feminism

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

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

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

When Gertrude Ederle struck out from France she left behind her a world which has believed for a great many centuries that woman is the weaker vessel. Much of government, most of law and practically all of morality is based upon this assumption. And when her toes touched the sands of England, she stepped out of the water into a brand-new world. It may be that she will turn out to be an even greater discoverer than Columbus. It was only a continent which he found.

in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an "economic interest" in the continued role of women as "the provider of children for the state" and the performer of household chores without pay.

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

Anyhow, she didn't care, that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

she was another tough-as-nails, tender-as-kittens, feminist bitch.

Bitch is just another word for feminist!