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Quotes About Feminism

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
~ Vivienne Westwood
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A well-behaved woman seldom makes history
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
~ Robin Morgan
If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end
~ Maria Mies
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
~ H. G. Wells
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
~ Qiu Jin
It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.
~ Emma Watson
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
~ Hugh Hefner
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.
~ Joss Whedon
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
~ Susan B. Anthony
The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
~ Lou Henry Hoover
If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.
~ Milton Jones
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.
~ Larissa Ione, Immortal Rider
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
~ Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
~ Joan Jett
Megan, you just single handedly set the women's movement back twenty years
~ Anie Michaels, Never Far Away
I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs.
~ N.M. Silber