Quotes About Feminism

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.