Quotes About Feminism

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

I really want to help write women back into history.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

I am always on the women's side.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

happy women get softer and rounder.