Quotes About Feminism

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.