Quotes About Feminism

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

I'm not a superficial, dramatic, makeup caked, bra stuffing, leg spreading, whore. If you can't accept that, you don't deserve me.

I remembered how in all the stories of my childhood the women were always hanging themselves.

Humillar a las mujeres parece ser el pasatiempo predilecto de los poetas

Humillar a las mujeres parece ser el pasatiempo predilecto de los poetas. Como si no pudiese haber historia a menos que nos arrastrásemos y sollozásemos.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

well. The term "frocky" was used a lot as a derogatory description for women that Eileen and Stephanie thought were dressing just to please male egos. Yet

Standing / apart from them one wonders / what on earth is a straight woman. / 'The only love I have ever felt / was for children and other women. / Everything else was just lust, pity, self-hatred, / pity, and lust.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

Me, too! I'll sell my bras and buy two million! One per cup!

In the following reading of Firestone on the question of technology I suggest we do read her as flawed and as "failed," but that this is both a necessary condition of the well-known contradictions that inevitably beset the feminist movement more broadly, and that they are what Firestone told us to expect (and why).

Sex class is so deep as to be invisible"—The Dialectic of Sex is a passionate, brilliant and uncompromising book.

Prepare the ground as Firestone may, insisting on the sober materialist approach to analysis, tracking the history, there is a sense here, that despite all this, technology continually exceeds its assigned role — if that role is simply to be the instrument through which to realize the possible in the real. It contains something more, a desire: the state of feminism is such that it needs something, and technology becomes that, or comes to stand for that something.

O què t'estimaries més quedar-te soltera? Potser sí que ho hauria preferit. I si un dia necessitava un home... doncs bé, el podria haver sense donar-li cap dret sobre la seva vida.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Women hold up half the sky.

The American woman is the most intelligent woman in the world today - the only one that always knows what she wants, and therefore always gets it. Hasn't she proved it by making her husband in his role as slave-banker look almost ridiculous in the eyes of the whole world? Not only has she intelligence but a wonderful beauty of line is hers, possessed by no other woman of any race at the present time.

To his mind, a healthy woman was a broke woman. A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man.

Feminist movement is pro-family.

Nothing nice happens to murdered women.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

It's not the men in my life that counts--it's the life in my men.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.