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Quotes About Feminism

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.
~ Helen Reddy
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
~ Richard Steele
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!
~ Kurt Cobain
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
~ Martin Luther
There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
~ Gloria Steinem
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
~ Andrea Dworkin
I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
~ Anita Loos
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i.
~ Adrienne Rich
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Coolest f-word ever deserves a fu..ing shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.
~ Ani DiFranco
Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?
~ William Shakespeare
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
~ Eva Burrows
Womens humor is part of the revolution.
~ Dale Spender
Women hold up half the sky.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
~ Pat Robertson
Women are necessary evils.
~ Proverb
If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?
~ Bill Maher
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.
~ Roseanne Barr
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
~ Mae West
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
~ Abigail Adams