Quotes About Feminism

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal power, education, or rights, in a world dominated by men. They are inspirational examples of the strength of the female spirit.

Joan was a young woman who tried to walk her own path in the world of men, just as my great-aunt told me. And it led to this cold tower, this swan dive, this death.

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

But this world is changing. Perhaps by the time you are old enough to marry the world will hear a woman's voice. Perhaps she will not have to swear to obey in her wedding vows. Perhaps one day a woman will be allowed to both love and think.

Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed as sexual chastity rather than spiritual awakening to an international philosophy.

Philippa Gregory

They don't like to think of women in power, women as leaders.

Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women of Afghanistan, the women of the Muslim world. I was no feminist -- but now, thinking back, I see how much I learned there, how clearly their condition taught me to see gender discrimination anywhere and, above all, taught me to see how cruel oppressed women could be to each other. They taught me about women everywhere.

A woman needs to be economically independent more than she needs a lover or a child.

sister-victims of the patriarchy.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Feminist ideology about the goal of gender-neutrality and the absence of innate differences between males and females goes out the window when it comes to the subject of domestic violence.

I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

Wearing a hijab is exactly what makes me a feminist. It's freedom of choice. My choice. It's a modesty that expresses humility and respect. It's a reminder of my community. It's a reminder to believe in myself and what I stand for. What's more feminist than that?

Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America's growing colonies and noted: "America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths.

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner.

Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

I don't have to have a man in my life, and I think men are attracted to that.

One is always attracted to pieces of theatre with great roles for women.

I think women are very attractive.

I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.