Quotes About Feminism

Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

As a woman, I have faced issues that men do not have to face - sexism included. I think that all women have, and that is totally unacceptable.

Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

Can you imagine the Mail on Sunday asking the weight of the prime minister, George Osborne or any other leading politician? I just think it's unbelievable that in the 21st century women still get asked such very, very different questions from men.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many

The Playboy Foundation provided $10,000—and the use of Playboy's offices as an assembly line, where volunteers, mostly senior citizens, were provided with foldout tables and free coffee and sandwiches while building the first of these revolutionary kits. "I took a lot of flak from the women's movement—but too bad," Goddard says. "If it was Penthouse or Hustler, no. But Playboy? Please, give me a break.

I am pro-choice, but I find that abortion is a failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

Feminism is about the freedom of women to be who they are without permission from society.

Wasn't the fight for women's rights based on our demand to be treated the same as everyone else? As we've seen regarding the gay, black and feminist establishment outside the academy's walls, demands for special treatment lead to the marginalization and patronization of the constituency at issue.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

I never faint, Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither.

You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!