Quotes About Feminism

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

It was not about keeping a man; it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.

I'm turning you into a girl chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf on a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

The deeper the mysteries of the universe, the less likely it is that whatever is responsible for them gives a damn about female dress codes or human sexual behavior.

Books make dangerous devils out of women.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah!

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Kobiety tak rzadko maj? sposobno?? wyst?powa? w charakterze ludzi, ?e wymagamy od nich, by w kobieco?ci ich zawiera?o si? ca?e ich cz?owiecze?stwo. I sami nie zdajemy sobie sprawy, jak w ten sposób w?a?nie poni?amy kobiet?.

Annabelle?" Ovivia says gently. "This is about you. But also...me. All of us. And... my little sisters. Every woman. Every person, but especially - every female person.

I could be a housewife… I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

Attractive, too, in a sleek, bony way, if one cares for women who look intelligent.

She knew she never wanted children or to serve his breakfast or run his errands or pretend she was not intellectually engaged with the world to make herself more loveable to him.

It is so mysterious to want to suppress women. It is even more mysterious when women want to suppress women. I can only think we are so very powerful that we need to be suppressed all the time.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

l'histoire de Cendrillon au 21ème siècle est moins à propos de montage dans les pantoufles de verre, et plus sur brisant les proverbiales plafonds de verre.

She said to him. "You're in a wrong place, man. If you're only interested in the breasts, legs, and thighs, the Southern Fried Chicken shop is just around the corner. I'm a sophisticated lady, not a bargain bucket of chunky meat pieces to satisfy your desire."

The Cinderella Story in 21st century is less about fitting into the glass slippers, and more about shattering the proverbial glass ceilings.

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

I don't understand why it's such a terrible thing for a woman to want wealth, anyway; we have as much right to it as a man. It isn't our fault if there's no way to get it except through a male; if jobs are closed to us, or if men themselves make it too dangerous for a woman to work in the open alone. We can resign ourselves to being poor, or being prey; there is no in between!

Elizabeth walked through the path they'd cleared and up to the towering book. She kicked the cover with a well-shod foot. It slammed shut. Then she dipped her brush into the bucket, crossed out the word history, dipped the brush again, and wrote HER STORY in its place.