Quotes About Feminism

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

if Eve had had a spade and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.

Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.

We are living through the invention of independent female adulthood....After a long history during which living solo would get you labeled a pathetic spinster or, if you were lucky, a sexual iconoclast, being recognized as an independent person rather than as someone's daughter, wife, or mother is a new, shiny kind of liberty for women, one that has unlocked all sorts of doors.

For many of us it seems that to be a feminist in the way that we have seen or understood feminism is to conform to an identity and way of living that doesn't allow for individuality, complexity, or less than perfect personal histories. We fear that the identity will dictate and regulate our lives, instantaneously pitting us against someone, forcing us to choose inflexible and unchanging sides, female against male, black against white, oppressed against oppressor, good against bad.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Ik erken geen werkelijkheid die vooral voordeel biedt aan net die helft van de mensheid waartoe ik niet behoor. Die houding kan ik iedereen aanbevelen. Voor mij is het niet nodig, de werkelijkheid te begrijpen of te bezweren. Het is nodig, er korte metten mee te maken. Al het andere is capitulatie – collaboratie zelfs.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

critical race theory builds on the insights of two previous movements, critical legal studies and radical feminism,

Francis "without having a specific feminist program…contributed to the feminizing of Christianity."2 French historian André Vauchez, in his critical biography of Francis, adds that this integration of the feminine "constitutes a fundamental turning point in the history of Western spirituality."3

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up? she wondered. I expect Jesus came out of the tomb, Juliet thought, and said to his mother, "Can you tidy it up a bit back there?

Men fell down. Women stood up.