Quotes About Feminism

If one still needs a reason to justify being a militant feminist, then head over to the Middle East. That's where you'll find real misogyny, which is propped up by a proper patriarchy. Happy travels!

Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma'am! - Suffragette City

With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It's OK to fuck around if you're a feminist but it's also not OK to fuck around because most guys aren't feminists and won't respect you and won't call you again if you fuck around.

That females are capable of being just as vulgar about sexual and eliminatory functions as males.

To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard.

The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

Be careful in the world of men, Diana. They do not deserve you. -Queen Hippolyta (Wonder Woman)

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Los senos son como el dinero, ninguno acepta que los necesita pero ninguno deja de pensar en ellos. Un mujer con el escote en su lugar tiene todas las armas para mover el mundo.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Se o exercício desse direito (o direito de dispor de seus próprios corpos, como as feministas diriam hoje), na utopia de Sade, resumia-se ao dever de tornar-se instrumento do prazer de outrem, não era tanto porque Sade odiasse as mulheres, mas porque odiava a humanidade. Ele percebeu, mais claramente do que as feministas, que todas as liberdades sob o capitalismo, no final, resumem-se na mesma coisa, na mesma obrigação universal de sentir e de dar prazer.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

Mary Wollstonecraft was the first person to apply the phrase 'legal prostitution' to marriage.

Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

The fact is that no language can be truly alive that is not used by women.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Anna O.'s real name was Bertha Pappenheim. Bertha Pappenheim became one of the first social workers in Europe. Her work was recognized in a commemorative German stamp issued in 1954. She was also an early feminist. Her work involved the establishing of homes for prostitutes and unwed mothers. It is possible that, and psychoanalytic terms, this career was on undoing of her own childhood sexual trauma and of the failure of any person in authority to validate its reality or offer comfort.

Vrouwen hebben niet genoeg verstand om optimaal te profiteren van het feminisme.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

If I want a woman, best to rent one by the hour.