Quotes About Feminism

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

For me there are only two type of women: goddesses and doormats.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate.

All you ever did was watch woman suffer and blame her for it.

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

Housekeeping, to her, was a way to cultivate a woman's submission and steal time, and she wanted nothing of it.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.

The fact that the Nazis constructed "polarized identities for males and females" and did not accept the feminist dogma about men and women being similar in every respect was said to be one of their worst misdeeds.

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

We should have gone little beyond the Yanomamo if the net outcome of the sexual revolution is a secure position for women at the head of mace squads or in the nuclear command posts.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.