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Quotes About Feminism

Women are natural anarchists...
~ Kim Gordon
I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
~ Sheila Rowbotham
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
~ Frederick Douglass
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
~ Alice Glass
The future of rock belongs to women.
~ Kurt Cobain
If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid
~ Diana Rigg
I believe in the power of the voice of women.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
~ Rick Santorum
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
~ Adrienne Rich
I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves.
~ Roxane Gay
Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.
~ Earl Wilson
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
~ Warren Farrell
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~ Patricia Ireland
When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
~ Camille Paglia
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
~ Karen DeCrow
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
~ Mary Daly
War is not women's history.
~ Virginia Woolf
Bad women celebrate themselves.
~ Janice Mirikitani
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
~ Ernestine Rose
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.
~ Stephen Colbert