Quotes About Feminism

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

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.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.