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Quotes About Feminism

I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.
~ Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
~ Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition
~ Patty Sheehan
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
~ Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
I am not for women but against men.
~ Karl Kraus
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.
~ Andy Warhol
You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
~ Candace Bushnell
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
~ Lily Allen
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?
~ Marya Mannes
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
~ Helen Fielding
I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.
~ Joanna Trollope
All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
~ John Legend
How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.
~ Ki Longfellow
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.
~ Gayle King
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.
~ Gloria Steinem
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
~ Christie Hefner
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
~ Alan Ball
Woman is the lesser man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson