Quotes About Feminism

There's a common misconception about running for office. People think it's dreadful, morally compromising work. But I've found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Women aren't so keen to have them anymore, not where I come from, anyway. They've got other fish to fry, which is fair enough. But they don't realise, sometimes, what they're missing, or what they're withholding, you know? The power they have.

They called her a disgrace to the nurturing traditions of womankind. They threatened to paint a mustache on her and shoot off her nipples.

I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races.

back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.

Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn't limit my imagination; it expands it," Toni Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today

There's Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there's Feminism and Hedonism, and there's Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.

What was wrong with being a girl? Was it really a man's world like my mom said? And if so, where did that leave us?

Why young women? Why not young men?" She smiled. "Because the history of this world is written by men determined to cast women in the worst light.

One can look at a plumber, a labourer, and say without a great sense of irony, 'He is a man, capable of the same heroism as Admiral Nelson or Saint Francis of Assisi.' But no one looks at a woman and says, 'She is a woman, she is capable of the same heroism as Lady Godiva or Anne Askew.' Our heroines are separated from us. So instead of trying to make Man accept us as daughters of heroism, we must raise all women to the level of heroines.

women as a sex and particularly

Kerry Greenwood

Is everyone called by their first name?' 'Yes. Have you ever thought that by losing your own name in marriage you lose a good portion of your identity? That to become Mrs. George Smith is to be entirely obliterated except as an adjunct to, or relict of, Mr. George Smith? The one name left is the one you were christened with.

You mean he's not afraid of me because I'm a woman? He ought to see Tomb Raider sometime. For all he knows, I could have a nuclear bomb under my dress and a hand grenade in each cup of my bra. I call it antifeminist!

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

As mulheres são anarquistas e revolucionárias por natureza.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

by using the word 'empowered' to describe women, men are simply maintaining their own power and control.

Women's lib does not mean imitating men's worst qualities just so we can lower ourselves and be equal to them.