Quotes About Feminism

I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.

It is curious, in passing, that the Women's Liberation Movement, the latest and most revolutionary of these waves, is paradoxically more patrist than much of what preceded it

In general, people judge it manly to pronounce dogmatic verdicts and fight for them, and to admit quantum uncertainty (von Neumann's maybe) seems unmanly. Feminism often challenges this machismo, but, just as often, certain Feminists appear to think they will appear stronger if they speak and behave as dogmatically and unscientifically as the stupidest, most macho males.

You, a male, have to have a business meeting with a Feminist who expects all, not sombunall, men to act unfairly or brutally. You try to remain calm and judicious, but her attitude annoys you more and more. Eventually, her hostility keys off your hostility. A prophecy has fulfilled itself: you have proven to her that her view of men as dangerous creatures has just had itself confirmed one more time.

women and men were equal in every way and there was no reason women should cover if men didn't.

Today I found a twenty in the red-lined pocket of my wool coat. There's no twenty-dollar bill in the red lining of my uterus.

Høibro kunde ikke forstå at denne tørre fremskridtskvinde med kort hår blandet sig i slike spørsmål som ægteskapet, hun stod i hans forestilling som en art hanmenneske i skjørter, et væsen av det tredje kjøn; stak man hul på hende vilde hun blø sand.

Kvinden var menneske, den ene halvdel av menneskeheten, men mandfolk det var nu kvinden ikke!

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.