Quotes About Feminism

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

As lovely as Aphrodite—as wise as Athena—with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules—she is known only as Wonder Woman, but who she is, or whence she came, nobody knows!

A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

I don't understand all the nuances of the women's movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

Yours is the face of a post-modern woman.

Every person who identifies female and has rage. I feel you, sister. This one's for you.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Feminism was supposed to chase away all of those embarrassing vulnerabilities. At least, you were supposed to be aware that acting helpless was something shameful. So was the tendency to hide your own fear behind the toughness of bad boys, if you had that. I had that. I'm being honest here. The

You gotta love an old-fashioned word like "quarrelsome." Today she'd just be a bitch.

Don't ever let the Man get you.