Quotes About Feminism

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Women are well on the road to equality but we haven't arrived yet.

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?