Quotes About Feminism

Sorry," I said. "They're great, but you know. The world doesn't revolve around breasts." "Listen to you!" Curly shouted. "Of course the world revolves around breasts! What else would it revolve around?

If you happen to be a woman, all problems are female problems.

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it's smash the patriarchy.

Right." ... "No feminism at the dinner table.

What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?

Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.

That's my girl!" Xander bellowed. "Woman," Max corrected. "That's my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!

No feminism at the dinner table.

Zo ken ik mijn meisje weer!' brulde Xander. 'Vrouw,' verbeterde Max hem. 'Zo ken ik mijn vrouw weer! En "mijn" is uiteraard bedoeld op een compleet niet bezitterige en absoluut onpatriarchale manier!' Max hief haar glas. 'Reken maar van faxing yes.

If I were a boy," Thea told him with a Southern belle smile, "people would just call me driven." "Thea." Constantine frowned at her. "Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table." This time, I couldn't bite back the snort. Point, Thea.

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.

If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose.

Women in the twenty-first century (which still sounds so funny to my ears) have options. We can marry or not marry; have children or not have children; be stay-at-home mothers or have careers. So yes, I told her, I want to get married, and yes, I want to find a life mate sooner rather than later, but that didn't make me a bad feminist. It just made me determined to have it all—

One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Boo-hoo. Help me, I'm a girl. What kind of modern woman are you? A smart one.

Ich sehe nicht ein, warum nicht zwei Frauen ihren Weg voll Glück und Harmonie allein gehen können. Was brauchen wir die Männer!

As long as women are denied the priesthood, we will try to make our own rituals at our own kitchen altars and we will sew our own magical capes at our own sewing machines

No wonder the word 'feminism' was feared. It had been much too narrowly defined. I define a feminist as a self-empowering woman who wishes the same for her sisters. I do not think the term implies a certain sexual orientation, a certain style of dress or membership in a certain political party. A feminist is merely a woman who refuses to accept the notion that women's power must come through men.

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against each other. Thus we remain stuck in the troubles we always had. It is imperative we renovate the machine -- no, not renovate it, but smash it entirely, so that we allow women to be all they need to be.

women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness

once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians. She had a greater stake in education and health, in the environment, in all social policy. She finally understood the way our society makes children and mothers the lowers of priorities. ...... I was hardly mellowed by the maternal transformation. If anything, my feminism grew more fierce.