Quotes About Feminism

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

In retrospect, it is evident that the emphasis on 'man as enemy' deflected attention away from focus on improving relationships between women and men, ways for men and women to work together to unlearn sexism.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

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.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

I am woman, hear me roar.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

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.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I'd be like, HEY! You get your bi... a.. back in the kitchen and make me some pie!

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.