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Quotes About Feminism

Donald Trump insisted he's always had a great relationship with women. He said, 'I believe a woman can be anything she wants to be, whether that's Miss USA or Miss Universe. Either one.'
~ Conan O'Brien
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.
~ Paget Brewster
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
~ Doris Lessing
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.
~ Mary Brave Bird
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
~ Helen Reddy
It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.
~ Julie Walters
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
~ Lillian Hellman
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
~ George Meredith
The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
~ Sam Kinison
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.
~ Helen H. Gardener
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
~ Stokely Carmichael
The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
~ John Lennon
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
~ Betty Friedan
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
~ Gloria Steinem
There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.
~ Charlotte Whitton
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
~ Alice Walker
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
~ Julie Walters
Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.
~ Laurie Penny