Quotes About Feminism

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.

Fortunately, when Benazir Bhutto was prime minister, she banned public whipping of women - banned whipping of women, period, which is a marvelous thing she did.

You didn't have to read 'Playboy,' visit the mansion, wear pajamas, or even be straight: The effects of its ideas about women on the American psyche were totalizing. Women were inferior to men because, for 'Playboy,' they were scenery - pretty, passive, usually white, often blonde, there.

I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the 'me too' movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.

It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Men should never be the prime focus of women's life.

To the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, you are no ally and you are no feminist.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

My WWE Divas championship belt is pink and sparkly, but it doesn't mean I'm a princess. It means girls can kick butt!

We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

I personally feel like the conversation around feminism has advanced a lot. People are starting to realize privileged white feminism isn't cutting it. We have to look at the holistic experience of all women, or assigned women, on the planet.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.