Quotes About Feminism

certaines féministes souhaitaient aller plus loin, permettre le prononcé de peines plus lourdes en introduisant la notion de « féminicide » dans le Code pénal, ce que je trouvais plutôt amusant, ça faisait penser à insecticide, ou à raticide.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings- all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. Here, we attempt to bridge the contradictions in our experience: We are the colored in a white feminist movement. We are the feminists among the people of our culture. We are often the lesbians among the straight. We do this bridging by naming our selves and by telling our stories in our own words.

Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest hearts may beat in girls only five feet tall.

In the early 1900s an American named Fanny Bullock Workman unfurled a 'Votes For Women' banner high in the Karakorams, and left her visiting card in a glass jar on one of the peaks.

THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN provided by French cinema don't need to be exaggerated. The number of films either starring or dealing primarily with women characters may be impressive, but it represents no unmanageable deluge. If you lived in France, you could keep abreast of everything by going to the movies once or twice a week.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code.

I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests.

Hitler killed six million innocent Jews. The feminists have killed fifty million innocent babies.

Given that (a) early feminists were steadfastly opposed to censorship and abortion, and (b) modern feminists are steadfastly committed to censorship and abortion, is it fair to say the feminist movement has lost its way? In other words, Diane, why can't you be more like Susan B. Anthony?

Maybe the source of my headache is the recent letter, written by a feminist to my dean and my chancellor, who also happens to be feminist, calling for me to be fired. She wrote the letter because I wrote a little paragraph in my nationally published column suggesting feminists are intolerant of free speech. Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to say that.

And these pro-choicers seem undeterred by the fact that three out of four women choose not to identify with the term 'feminist'.

People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.

And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves.

I don't read them; I just hit "accept." iTunes may own my ovaries, for all I know.

10. I will never have a husband and all my female acquaintances will. 11. I WILL have a husband and he will be like my female acquaintances' husbands.

And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that is why you need to be a little bit brave.

want a guy who is a feminist, someone who knows that all that means is that men and women are equal. A man who admires strong women, like Hillary Clinton or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But not that really accomplished woman from his office who seems cool and put-together. I don't mean her. I'd like him to resent her irrationally, actually. I mean older, strong women in the theoretical.

I think widespread, online displays of female self-confidence are good for people, especially men, to see.

There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character.

And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.