Quotes About Feminism

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

My dream is to save women from nature.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Virginia Woolf

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.