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Quotes About Feminism

I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.
~ James Gunn
I am loving visible bras with shirts, high-waisted pants and oversize blazers.
~ Leandra Medine
Hindi cinema needs to make working women and women of substance more visible.
~ Shabana Azmi
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
~ Dorothy Allison
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
~ Louisa May Alcott
This book should be sent to the White House, and to our earnest Attorney General, and to everyone in this country able to read—which may, however, alas, be a most despairing statement. We love—the white Americans, I mean—the notion of the little woman behind the great man: perhaps one day, Louise Meriwether will give us her version of What Every Woman Knows.
~ Louise Meriwether
You white women have always managed to have your cake and eat it, too.
~ Louise Meriwether
Notre place dans le l'humanité [en tant que femme] ne doit pas être mendiée, mais prise
~ Unknown
Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)
~ Unknown
Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
~ Luce Irigaray
Cleaning women: You will get a lot of liberated women. First stage is a CR group; second stage is a cleaning woman; third, divorce.)
~ Unknown
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
~ Lucille Ball
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
~ Lucretia Mott
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
~ Lucy Stone
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
~ Lucy Stone
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
~ Margaret Mead
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
~ Jane Harrison
And if he want some pus.. that's a no-no. I only fu..s with bad bi...es, no homo.
~ Nicki Minaj
Being a girl sucks because you get harassed and discriminated against.
~ Unknown
What I know in life runs the gamut of the "feminist experience." The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
~ Pamela Anderson
What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
~ Joyce Rachelle
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
~ Marguerite Young