Quotes About Feminism

People called Mom that a lot, probably because she had a hard time holding her tongue and could be brutally blunt when she disagreed with you. She'd explode like a thunderstorm, and then be fine again. Anyhow, she didn't care that people called her a bitch. "It's just another word for feminist," she told me with pride.

What they say about females being the weaker sex is the biggest lie in the world.

Dismissing the idea that female choice could influence the direction of evolution began to look both sexist and unscientific. By drawing attention to the evolution of social and sexual behavior in animals, the sociobiology of the 1970s did for the study of animal sexuality what feminism did for the study of human sexuality. It empowered thinkers to ask "Why does sex work like this, instead of some other way?

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility. Many will dismiss feminism as merely a matter of domestic logistics. . . . Mention procreation, and they talk about the population explosion. They believe it is just as well that many women indicate disinterest in having children.

A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.

George Weston, after all was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear.

And a woman striding among them like an equal.

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

No hay feminismo sin independencia económica. Eso lo vi claramente en mi infancia con la situación de mi madre. Las mujeres necesitamos disponer de ingresos propios y manejarlos, para eso se requiere educación, capacitación y un ambiente laboral y familiar adecuado.

They are more interesting than most men, but that does not affect the reality: they live in an unyielding patriarchy. To begin with, a woman's work or intellect isn't respected; we must work twice as hard as any man to earn half the recognition

El feminismo no me alcanzó para repartir las tareas domésticas, en verdad esa idea no me pasó por la cabeza, creía que la liberación consistía en salir al mundo y echarme encima los deberes masculinos, pero no pensé que también se trataba de delegar parte de mi carga. El

La condición femenina es una desgracia, hija, es como tener piedras atadas a los tobillos, no se puede volar.

There's no feminism without economic independence.

I never accepted the limited feminine role imposed upon me by my family, society, culture, and religion. At fifteen I walked away from the church forever, not for lack of faith - that cam later - but because of the inherent machismo of all religious organizations. I cannot belong to an institution that considers me a second-class member whose authorities, always male, enjoy complete impunity and enforce their rules with dogma.

La objetivación de la mujer es tan predominante que no la percibimos y en la juventud nos esclaviza. El feminismo no nos ha salvado de esa esclavitud. Solo nos libramos con la edad, cuando nos convertimos en seres invisibles y ya no somos objeto de deseo, o cuando alguna tragedia nos sacude hasta los huesos y nos confronta con lo fundamental de la existencia.

Consideraba el matrimonio como un pésimo negocio para las mujeres, en cambio lo recomendaba sin reservas a su descendencia masculina.

Isabel Allende

until women shortened their dresses and their hair and stopped wearing corsets, it made no difference if they studied medicine or had the right to vote, because they would not have the strength to do it […]

Es necesario despenalizar el aborto, es decir, que no se castigue. Eso es diferente a legalizarlo, porque las leyes las impone el patriarcado y al legalizarlo el poder queda en manos de jueces, policías, políticos y otras estructuras masculinas. Como un paréntesis, puedo agregar que por la misma razón las trabajadoras sexuales no desean la legalización de la prostitución, sino la despenalización.

El patriarcado es pétreo. El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.