Quotes About Feminism

Though most of the punished witches were neither propertied nor powerful, the constant reminder of what patriarchal power could do to uppity, solitary, or rebellious women must have gone a long way toward keeping the mass of women in their place.

Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.

The sort of reasoning that would try a woman for murder if she sought an abortion could well lead to renewed witch-hunts.

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women. —D. H. Lawrence

Women are the only exploited.....

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealised into powerlessness

Femeile sunt singurul grup exploatat din istorie a carui neputinta a fost idealizata.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation. He's about to quit his job.

DIDEROT: Vy Å¡ejdíÃ…â"¢i! THERBOUCHEOVÁ: Používejte pro mÄ› prosím femininum. Ã…Ëœíkejte mi Å¡ejdíÃ…â"¢ko. DIDEROT (temnÄ›): V ženském rodÄ› se Ã…â"¢íká spíÅ¡ dÄ›vka.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

Amber Tamblyn

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

I, for one, hope for the day when women will know no restrictions because of sex but will be individuals free to live their lives as men are free—irrespective of the continent or country where they happen to live.

It was generally called the "powder puff derby" and those who flew in it variously as "Ladybirds", "Angels" or "Sweethearts of the Air". (We are still trying to get ourselves called just "pilots".)

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.