Quotes About Feminism

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.

Adalah revolusionar bagi perempuan untuk menyanyikan kepedihan, tapi lebih lagi bila ia menyanyikan seluruh lagu kehidupan

Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women. In

That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.

God may be in the details, but the Goddess is in the connections.

I had been silent and silenced about an abortion I'd had years before. Like many women, I'd been made to feel at fault, not realizing there were political reasons why female humans were not supposed to make decisions about our own bodies.

What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.

But for women especially, bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without those visual references, however, each individual woman's body can be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

We are the women our parents warned us about - and we are proud!

As Vita Sackville-West wrote: I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

Prostitution isn't the oldest profession, it's the oldest oppression.

In the words of so many daughters who don't yet know that a female fate is not a personal fault, I told myself: I'm not going to be anything like my mother.

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of women's "libbers", bra burners, and radicals; then women on welfare; then briefcase carrying imitations of male executives; then unfulfilled women who forgot to have children; then women voters...that really could decide elections. That last was too dangerous, so suddenly we were told we were in a "postfeminist" age...

I don't think feminism can just be imitative or integrationist. By definition, it must transform. But in the short run, there are goals we agree on. And it's in the short run that we must act.

The truth was that I had internalized society's unserious estimate of all that was female - including myself.

I was more interested in going to sea and the revolution than in staying home as the mother or the wife.

Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.