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Quotes About Feminism

A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.
~ Melinda Gates
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
~ Gloria Steinem
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
~ Gloria Steinem
Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.
~ Dan Savage
Man is woman's last domestic animal
~ Will Durant
Woman is to man as the slave to the master, the manual to the mental worker, the barbarian to the Greek. Woman is an unfinished man, left standing on a lower step in the scale of development.
~ Will Durant
I think women are foolish to pretend they're equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.
~ William Golding
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding
~ William Golding
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
~ William Golding
Wow, brains as well as boobs.
~ William Goldman
I'll be darned if I'd let any man tell me whether I could bob my hair or not. Why, I wouldn't go back to long hair now for anything. Morris says maybe I should take up smoking cigarettes now. Would you believe it, Cora? Women all over Oklahoma City are smoking cigarettes now. Isn't that disgraceful? What in God's name are we all coming to?
~ William Inge
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kim yaratm??t?? Kuma olmaktan, insan?n ruhuyla, bedeniyle tutsak olmas?ndan daha küçültücü ?ey var m? dünyada? Zavall? kad?nlar, mezarlar?n?zdan kalk?n! K?zl?klar? ellerinden zorla al?nm?? kad?nlar?n, a?a??lanm?? kad?nlar?n ruhlar?, kalk?n! Kalk?n, kötü dünyalar?, pis dünyalar? titretin! Ben ça??r?yorum sizi, ben, sonuncunuz! Ben, ba?kald?ran kuma.
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.
~ Chinua Achebe
But in some way, they remained shadowy figures, their thoughts and motives mysterious, their emotions portrayed only when they affected the lives of the male heroes, their roles ultimately subservient to those of their fathers or husbands, brothers or sons.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Dear Dick, I wrote in one of many letters, what happens between women now is the most interesting thing in the world because it's least described
~ Chris Kraus
Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?
~ Chris Kraus
I have long since resolved to be a Jew ... I regard that as more important than my art," R.B. Kitaj and Arnold Schoenberg declared. Hannah Wilke said: "Feminism in a larger sense is intrinsically more important to me than art." No one over called these men bad Jews.
~ Chris Kraus
I have long since resolved to be a Jew ... I regard that as more important than my art," R.B. Kitaj and Arnold Schoenberg declared. Hannah Wilke said: "Feminism in a larger sense is intrinsically more important to me than art." No one ever called these men bad Jews.
~ Chris Kraus
Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gorz, but later on he turned the group against me for being too cerebral and acting like a boy. And weren't all these passionate interests and convictions just evasions of a greater truth, my cunt? I was an innocent, a de-gendered freak, 'cause unlike Liza Martin, who was such a babe she refused to take her platforms off for Kundalini Yoga, I hadn't learned the trick of throwing sex into the mix.
~ Chris Kraus
Why should women settle to think and talk about just femaleness when men were constantly transcending gender?
~ Chris Kraus
Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
~ Chris O'Dowd
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
~ Christie Hefner
That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers