Quotes About Feminism

And when had a critical eye ever helped me, really? Nobody likes the girl who points out all the inherent sexism on The Bachelor . But people are charmed byt the girl kvelling about nail art, boba tea, and the homeopathic benefits of ayahuasca.

Except she wasn't like a husband from the 1950s because she didn't bring home the bacon.

There's no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.' 'Good, because I didn't mean to. It's a habit with females, that's all, saying sorry all the time when there's absolutely no need. . .

No, Ernie, says Agata, there's no plot, we're only women talking.

Feminism" means taking for granted that woman and man are meant to complement each other while sharing equal dignity, equal rights, and equal humanity—nothing more and nothing less.

As a child of immigrant parents, as a woman of color in a white society and as a woman in a patriarchal society, what is personal to me IS political.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Here you will never learn anything just because girls do it. But it's a pity not to do things just because girls do them. Work must be done for its own sake.

Most non-Christian philosophies consider history to be the enemy of truth. Feminism shares this suspicion of history.

C'est l'oppression qui crée le sexe et non l'inverse.

Dans la mesure où la femme devient réalité pour un individu uniquement en relation avec un individu de la classe opposée - les hommes - et en particulier dans le mariage, les lesbiennes, parce qu'elles n'entrent pas dans cette catégorie, ne sont pas des "femmes".

A luta de classes é precisamente aquilo que resolve as contradições entre duas classes opostas, ao aboli-las ao mesmo tempo que as constitui e as revela enquanto classes. A luta de classes entre homens e mulheres, que deveria ser empreendida por todas as mulheres, é aquela que resolve as contradições entre os sexos, abolindo-as e, ao mesmo tempo, fazendo com que sejam compreendidas.

The women say that it may be that the feminaries have fulfilled their function. They say they have no means of knowing. They say that thoroughly indoctrinated as they are with ancient texts no longer to hand, these seem to them outdated. All they can do to avoid being encumbered with useless knowledge is to heap them up in the squares and set fire to them. That would be an excuse for celebrations.

Car la catégorie de sexe est le produit de la société hétérosexuelle qui impose aux femmes l'obligation absolue de la reproduction de "l'espèce", c'est-à-dire, de la reproduction de la société hétérosexuelle

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It opens up spaces for political contestation and allows for the flourishing of new forms of politics to sit alongside its more conventional ones. Feminism does not need the stable unitary subject to guarantee its politics. It needs a deeper understanding of the political nature of subjectivity and of the dynamism of politics.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

At the root of the women's liberation movement is resentment against the very existence of women as a distinctive entity.

Even men themselves are not equal to each other. Why should a woman seek equality between men?

When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, "Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.

When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read "Housewife" or "Mother" runs for Congress. When facing one indignant male colleague after another who demanded how she could be both a member of Congress and a mother, she said, "Because I have a brain and a uterus and both work.

Men who call strong women shrews," she said in a tone formed of sugar syrup and molasses, "are often men scared of a woman's strength.

Rama looks on as Lakshmana disfigures Surpanakha but then, he is maryada purushottam. The ideal man allows other women to be disfigured and, constantly suspicious of her chastity, neglects his own wife!

a woman who seems to be a passive character in major portions of the Ramayana, following her husband through thick and thin, insistent in her demand for the suvarnamrig, finally emerges as a strong woman with a will of her own. However, that is not what she is worshipped for.