Quotes About Feminism

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

I've never wanted to marry," Pandora continued. "Anyone who knows me will tell you that. When I was little, I never liked the stories about princesses waiting to be rescued. I never wished on falling stars, or pulled the petals off daisies while reciting 'he loves me, he loves me not.

The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress.

Let feminism be this girl raging at a chandelier.

Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.

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.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war--killing people around the world, many of them women and children.

in Woodhull's home state of Ohio, he came from the American heartland. The electorate had endowed him with an authenticity to which Woodhull could respond. She had paved her way to the White House

I don't need no PMS. I can bitch under my own steam.

It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

I don't want a husband." "Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife.

The fight for women's rights hasn't come in waves. Wonder Woman was a product of the suffragist, feminist, and birth control movements of the 1900s and 1910s and became a source of the women's liberation and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The fight for women's rights has been a river, wending.

Wonder Woman isn't only an Amazonian princess with badass boots. She's the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman suffrage campaigns of the 1910s and ends with the troubled place of feminism fully a century later. Feminism made Wonder Woman. And then Wonder Woman remade feminism....

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained. Feminists rejected the idea of women as reformers whose moral authority came from their differentness from men—women were supposedly, by nature, more tender and loving and chaste and pure—and advocated instead women's full and equal participation in politics, work, and the arts, on the grounds that women were in every way equal to men.