Quotes About Feminism

I hate it when girls act stupid 'cause they think it's cute. Intelligence is sexy.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was cultural; that the first could be changed but the second could not. - Gloria Steinem

magazine summed up the popular view of women at the time: "She works rather casually… less toward a big career than as a way of filling a hope chest or buying a new home freezer. She gracefully concedes the top job rungs to men." This was often true even well into the 1960s, although the concession was not always graceful.

halves of a spiritual whole; each completed the other. She realized that "feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Hacen falta dos para bailar, y hacen falta dos para convertir a una mujer en objeto sexual.

To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, "a woman must have money and a room of her own. ...." I needed money and a backpack.

Some guys actually like it when a woman's brain is as full as her bra.

Maybe this is a hallmark of privilege: certain well-bred young ladies simply cannot conceive of the possibility that somebody will not be along shortly to rescue them.

my nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.

When, oh when will justice and reason prevail, and Woman descend from the pedestal on which Man has placed her (in order to prevent her from doing anything except standing perfectly still) and take her rightful place beside him?

the wrongs of my oppressed sisters must always waken a flame of indignation in my bosom.

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.

Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can't be the way I am and have the world accommodate it on some level.

All the backpedaling and backstepping that goes on with powerful women today, with Hillary Clinton saying she could have stayed home and baked cookies and blah blah blah, and then offending everybody so that she had to say that she does, in fact, *love* to make cookies, loves it almost as much as she likes to trade agricultural futures. I mean, what is that about? All this I'm really a lady, I'm really a nice girl crap- who needs it? It really is nothing more than surrender.

Mother, what is a Feminist?" "A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don't think she oughter.

Convincing red-haired her to stay with someone -his son- who has another wife too, it's the father, who can convince anyone of anything: look at them convincing you still philosophy, science, literature- everyone's convictions come from them; in consequence a harping feminism... and this is my old hat. But it's only a few years old their old hat is thousands.

What I took it to mean was: women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities.

And for an insane moment she thought, this is no different from normality, just women existing and surviving, this is what happens to women who don't fit into a world created by men.