Quotes About Feminism

For there's nothing in the world so bad for some women as marriage, he thought; and politics...

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote

Virginia Woolf

las mujeres y la novela son dos problemas que no he resuelto.

que una mujer necesita dinero y una habitación propia para dedicarse a la literatura;

No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own; those innumerable books by men about women in the British Museum are a proof of it. The Suffrage campaign was no doubt to blame. It must have roused in men an extraordinary desire for self-assertion; it must have made them lay an emphasis upon their own sex and its characteristics which they would not have troubled to think about had they not been challenged

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn't just hand everything over to women and be done with it.

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

I'm a lady and these are my lady bites." "Mouth closed, please. No one needs to witness your mastication process," said Tess's father

Je ne souhaite pas, comme certaines ou certains, juger l'Islam à partir de mon occidentalocentrisme, ni énoncer à partir de mes valeurs personnelles des oukases à prétention universelle; devant certains traitements imposés aux femmes du monde arabe, je ne souhait pas hurler avec les loups. Je veux seulement comprendre.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Les femmes bien élevées entrent rarement dans l'histoire

She buried her nose in Lydia's hair and made silent promises. Never to tell her to sit up straight, to find a husband, to keep a house. Never to suggest that there were jobs or lives or worlds not meant for her; never to let her hear doctor and think only man. To encourage her, for the rest of her life, to do more than her mother had.

She buried her nose in Lydia's hair and made silent promises. Never to tell her to sit up straight, to find a husband, to keep a house. Never to suggest that there were jobs or lives or worlds not meant for her; never to let her hear doctor and think only man. To encourage her, for the rest of her life, to do more than her mother had. "All

Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Ada Limón,

As Elizabeth Fisher pointed out in Woman's Creation, human history's first and longest reigning social unit was the mother and child, not the husband and wife.

Joan Jett at the far left, staring straight into the camera, her eyes dragging me in. Just like the mystery chick at the Stop-N-Go.

Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.

But the animal has no veil. Dogs better treated than Afghan women. (Même l'animal n'a de voile. Chien mieux traité que l'afghane ?)

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.