Quotes About Feminism

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Jak mÄ› dojímá ženský údÄ›l. Jakým smutkem mÄ› napl?uje. Pro? jen polovina lidstva nese na bedrech tak ohromnou tíhu, zatímco ta druhá odpo?ívá? Ne, nejsem blázen, Ã…â"¢íká si NataÅ¡a. Vím, co Ã…â"¢íkám. Vím, pro? to Ã…â"¢íkám.

But of one thing I was certain. I couldn't undo four hundred years of social injustice with a pretty dress and a soft voice.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs.

Vous ne pouvez pas le croire, vous les hommes, mais la seule raison pour laquelle les femmes assument ce qui vous convient le plus, c'est que vous les empêchez de découvrir ce qui leur convient à elles. Si elles avaient la liberté, si elles avaient la sagesse de pleinement développer leur force et leur beauté de femmes, elles ne souhaiteraient jamais être des hommes ou semblables à des hommes.

The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

feminists hate me don't they? And i don't blame them. For i hate feminism. It is poison.

When will women not be compelled to view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained? When will a woman cease to be made of pain?

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

And out in the wide wide world, the famous women we gazed upon never stopped reminding us that we must cherish that generic female future.

Sarah Pomeroy, in her careful study, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves

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.

Si las mujeres feministas insistieron en el derecho de instruirse, en el derecho de ejercer la razón, en no encontrarse en situación de minus valia ante el monopolio masculino de la cultura, era porque veían con diáfana claridad que no hay libertad sin conocimiento.

No hay rebelión de la mujer sin crisis de poder.