Quotes About Feminism

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

A society can never be free without women's liberation

I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.