Quotes About Feminism

I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)

It's no surprise that a generation of women who were brought up being told that they were equal to men, that sexism, and therefore feminism, was dead, are starting to see through this. And while they're pissed off, they're also positive, bubbling with hope. One obvious outcome of being brought up to believe you're equal is that you're both very angry when you encounter misogyny, but also confident in your ability to tackle it.

The academic and writer Sara Ahmed has written brilliantly about the idea of the feminist killjoy, and why it should be embraced – because feminism isn't about making everyone around the table feel comfortable. It's about being disruptive, challenging, and changing the terms of the debate, so that, over time, almost certainly with discomfort and backlash, everyone becomes freer.

A new energy coursed through society, thousands of feminists suddenly rising, suddenly angry, ready to strike against an image and treatment of women that no longer seemed remotely ironic or funny.

Yes, you're afraid of me because I'm better than you are. And if you give one talented woman the power she deserves, another will follow. Then another. And together they'll show that their way is better. Then your whole fake fucking world will come tumbling down.

It's all about the killers—not the women they kill.

And in case you haven't noticed, somebody's always killing women.

Psychologically, Japanese women depend largely on each other. In their sex-segregated society, they could be criticized for living in a female ghetto, and yet they have what some American feminists are trying to build, a "women's culture" with its own customs, values and even language.

By the same token, I think it's time that we allow ourselves to experience real anger as women. And I don't mean that passive aggressive dance that we've employed for too many years. It's not real anger if it is implied or a few degrees removed, if it takes the form of whispering, or cold shoulders, or silent treatment. Real anger is what popular culture would have us be afraid of, based on the fact that it is not courteous, elegant, or feminine.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

Though it would become fashionable for nineteenth-century feminists in other denominations to drop the promise of obedience in marriage vows, there was no such clause in the Quaker ceremony, because there was no, in Lucretia's words, 'assumed authority or admitted inferiority; no promise of obedience.

Dominance functions best in a culture of disconnections and fragmentation. Feminism recognizes connections. Imagine

If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for announcing one's independence. Refusing the male order in food, women practiced the theory of feminism thorugh their bodies and their choice of vegetarianism.

We believe that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural entities.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.

Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation from what was happening around the world.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...