Quotes About Feminism

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

There are no social differences - till women come in.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Women and men are equal human beings.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.