Quotes About Feminism

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

Stop telling women to smile.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.