Quotes About Feminism

I hate the habit of calling women high-maintenance, as if they were cars or appliances. As if women, in general, require care in a way that men do not.

She was the rare feminist, possibly the only feminist, with an unabashed commitment to male supremacy.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

People say I'm a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box.

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was. I

This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self. I was fine with the prince fighting at my side, or, hell, I'd rescue him if he needed it.

I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother. I was glad for her, it meant more freedom for the rest of us.

You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society.

Before the suffragettes came along, women were treated like dogs... They were dolls, with no thoughts, or opinions, or voices of their own. Then the suffragettes marched in, full of loud, in-your-face ideas. They got arrested and thrown in jail, but nothing shut them up. They fought and fought until they earned the rights they should've had all along.

Never forget that women are people, not furniture. They aren't sofas to be jumped around on at your leisure.

Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

Expert Tip: "Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

The book was We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.