Quotes About Feminism

A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

feministas que se dejen de hablar mierda. Habrá una ley que otra que nos proteja, una puerta que otra que se nos abra. Pero en el día a día, una mujer sigue valiendo lo que siempre ha valido una mujer.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.

At the podium Faith said, "Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

I think there are two kinds of feminists. The famous ones, and everyone else. Everyone else, all the people who just quietly go and do what they're supposed to do, and don't get a lot of credit for it, and don't have someone out there every day telling them they're doing an awesome job.

Sisterhood," she said, "is about being together with other women in a cause that allows all women to make the individual choices they want. Because as long as women are separate from one another, organized around competition—like in a children's game where only one person gets to be the princess—then it will be the rare woman who is not in the end narrowed and limited by our society's idea of what a woman should be.

In the old days of Take Back the Night, you could march with other women and feel that all the rapists of the world were small and powerless.

Corporate America had tried to get women to behave as badly as men, Faith Frank said, but women did not have to capitulate. They could be strong and powerful, all the while keeping their integrity and decency.

Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but . . .' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

Corporate America had tried to get women to behave as badly as men, Faith Frank said, but women did not have to capitulate.

He paused to wonder which Disney character Jules was, and realized that Disney did not make women or girls or woodland animals that were like her.

there are two aspects to feminism. The first is individualism, which is that I get to shape my own life. That I don't have to fit into a stereotype, doing what my mother tells me, conforming to someone else's idea of what a woman is. But there's a second aspect too, and here I want to use the old-fashioned word 'sisterhood,' which may make you groan a little and head for the exits in a stampede, but I'll just have to take that chance.

Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was a freshman but turned him down because I refuse to disempower myself just for a few clit twitches.

I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.

You don't make a female character strong by playing her opposite a buffoon. You just make her strong . .

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one.

Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America's flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eager to accept integration, feminism, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, and the drug culture– or to shoulder the blame for the existence of these problems– but they were certainly willing to read about them.

Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends.

I loved Jerry, and I wanted to have his baby." She laughed. "This was before women started looking at their vaginas in hand mirrors and Gloria Steinem told us we could be more than just mothers.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.