Quotes About Feminism

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Equality for women is progress for all.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Let's just put it this way: if you think there's a thing – anything – women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

Well behaved women do not make history.

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.