Quotes About Feminism

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

I like the idea of a strong woman in charge.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

All women are rebels.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.