Quotes About Feminism

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.