Quotes About Feminism

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones!

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.