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Quotes About Feminism

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.
~ Virginia Woolf
I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.
~ Greta Gerwig
Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.
~ Michael Kimmel
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
~ Harriet Hanson Robinson
Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.
~ Sylvia Plath
Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.
~ Yoko Ono
A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man
~ Shelagh Delaney
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
~ Lauren Bacall
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
~ Berthe Morisot
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
~ Frank O'Connor
In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.
~ Bill Cosby
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
~ Caitlin Moran
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
~ Dinah Shore
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
~ Huda Sha'arawi
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.
~ Neal Stephenson
As feministas querem reduzir a mulher a um macho mal-acabado.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof