Quotes About Feminism

Titanic as it sank into the icy sea? Would you prefer that the men leap ahead of you into the lifeboats, leave you and your children to die?" Alva answered without pause. "If a woman had designed the ship in the first place, there would have been enough lifeboats for everyone.

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.

I felt hemmed in by barriers that men were allowed to climb over or walk around. In this, I shared a desire with many women of my era—and yes, later eras—for greater freedom.

What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?

In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore.

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one.

Between men and women, as Jenny Fields once said, only death is shared equally.

I'm not an anti-feminist! Of course you're not, Garp told her. They make everything so black and white. Of course they do, said Garp. That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them - or else you're their enemy. Yes, yes, Garp said. I wish I could talk.

Between men and women," as Jenny Fields once said, "only death is shared equally.

In this dirty-minded world," Jenny wrote, "you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore—or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.