Quotes About Feminism

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

Men and women are not equal.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

There are not many good roles for women.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.