Quotes About Feminism

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Of course I'm a feminist…if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.