Quotes About Feminism

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

My lesbianism is not linked to sexual preference. For me, it is part of my world view, part of my passion for women and central in my objection to male domination.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

A woman would be more intelligent, obviously.

Maybe she was sexist.

C'est à la mère de surveiller son enfant. Et tant pis pour le féminisme. Pam était capable de hurler sur les toits pour défendre l'égalité des salaires, mais toutes les femmes savaient qu'on ne pouvait pas compter sur les hommes en société. Il était scientifiquement prouvé qu'ils étaient incapables de faire deux choses à la fois!

The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.

Sex is not a discrete body of knowledge that can be isolated from the rest of life. Talking about sex implies talking about relationships, self-esteem, feminism and femininity, gender differences, marriage and maternity, men and paternity.

Mi sento dire spesso: «Eh, ma ormai siete dappertutto», come se fossimo una specie di epidemia. Facciamo qualsiasi mestiere, possiamo conquistare ogni carica, in fondo. Siamo protagoniste delle pubblicità e dei film. Ma se è per questo, di immagini femminili è piena da sempre anche la pornografia. Non è la quantità a fare la visibilità. È la considerazione, è l'autorevolezza, sono i ruoli che ricopriamo.

Sono d'accordo, la diplomazia è preziosa e costruire alleanze tra i sessi è fondamentale. Ma la guerra c'è e quando i nodi degli interessi personali vengono al pettine, nessun uomo sa essere femminista quanto una donna.

I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.

What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it.

As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is -- we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother