Quotes About Feminism

People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body, nature, technological change, popular culture, and democracy. Oh, and I forgot to mention sex. And sports. And Andy Warhol. But other than that, I'm cool with whatever the kids are into. Really!

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.

I think, on the whole, that those French lady writers1 who desire to enjoy the privileges of man, with the irresponsibility of the other sex, would have been delighted with the disciples who were carrying their principles into practice in the streets of Cruces.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof.

No me sorprendió. Por norma, todas las religiones del mundo discriminaban a las mujeres, bien situándolas en un incomprensible segundo plano o bien legitimando que pudieran ser maltratadas y vejadas. Era algo realmente lamentable a lo que nadie parecía querer encontrar una solución.

Death to the pale-penised man-monster! Death to the pendulous-breasted harridan!

Hi," I said. "I'm the last of the Brontë sisters.

The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America." -Elizabeth Bisland

A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

The psychology of men and women in our civilization does not signal an eternal masculine or feminine...We must not...consider the attributes of the woman or the man as natural, but as historical.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.