Quotes About Feminism

Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

Then, a female was politically classed with infants, idiots, and lunatics, as 'naturally incapacitated… and therefore… so much under the influence of others that [she] cannot have a will of her own'.3 That is why there were such strict regulations governing her behaviour at university (and beyond), not only to protect her moral and physical welfare, but to defend good men, such as undergraduates and lecturers, from temptation and involuntary folly.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing.

No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women.

A man who decides to call himself a woman is not giving up his privilege. He is simply using it in a more insidious way.

it is women who have the wombs. Women give birth. Therefore female deities—Goddesses—give birth to creation. This is not to take away from the masculine contribution—it takes one of each gender to create new life—but since the male God has been touted for several millennia as the sole arbiter of creation, we do no one injustice by strongly asserting the feminist viewpoint here.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Women ought to be free—as free as we are

Women ought to be free—as free as we are, he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Las mujeres deberían ser libres..., tan libres como nosotros —declaró, descubriendo algo cuyas terribles consecuencias estaba demasiado irritado para medir.

It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries castration as a mask.

Instead of batting their eyes at idiots, young girls will start taking up stick swords to slay a dragon and save the prince.

Somewhere down the road...I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.

Feminist admirers of direct action often overlook Mary Richardson's later public life. After participating in bombing and arson campaigns in support of suffragism, Richardson became a very senior member of the British Union of Fascists,[14] a path that other Suffragettes followed.

so they've tried to turn into new men, but that's no good either, because now we're telling them to be masculine. we don't just want them in a pair of marigolds cleaning the oven, that's not good enough. we want them to take control, to whisk us off to hotels, buy us dinner, and make mad, passionate love to us all night. we want it all ways. women want to be feminists and romantics. we want them to be heroes and handy with the vacuum. no wonder the poor guys are confused' -trudy

If you were really a feminist, you'd support housewives. You'd see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!

That's one reason I really love 'Supergirl.' It's a great show for people to watch with their children - sons and daughters alike. It features strong female characters which is always something to appreciate.

Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it smell better, but the idea that has pushed our lives into the light more than any other -ism or -ology is feminism.

We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It's so great to see women in positions of power, which is why other artists, such as Marilyn Minter, are so inspirational to me.

There was an angry wave in the '70s, a strong feminist angry wave. I remember thinking - oh my God - I thought it was the beginning of something, and it all went quiet.