Quotes About Feminism

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

One could continue quoting Irigaray, but the reader is probably lost (so are we).

Offering a lady a chair was one way of showing that this work was appreciated, and that strength and brute force—at which men generally tended to excel—was not the only thing that counted. Respect for ladies tamed men, and there were many men who were sorely in need of taming; that was well known, said Mma Ramotswe.

But it had not occurred to him to praise her, because in his view she was just doing her duty as a woman and there was nothing special about that." (pg.34)

For the first time, I was beginning to see that for a woman to speak her mind in any clear, unassailable, unapologetic way, she must first possess it.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother

I think a lot of women look at hookers like scabs crossing a picket line. "You can't just go out and sell it! We're holding out for so much more!

Why should certain feminists feel entirely fine about men who become women only then to either flaunt their perfect breasts, ape the royal family or take up knitting?

Second-wave feminist rhetoric placed blame for the female condition entirely on men, or specifically on "patriarchy" . . . The exclusive focus of feminism was on an external social mechanism that had to be smashed or reformed. It failed to take into account women's intricate connection with nature – that is, with procreation.' Or why, 'in this era of the career woman, there has been a denigration, or devaluing of the role of motherhood.

The author of The Female Eunuch had only dealt with trans issues in depth once in her career. In her 1999 book The Whole Woman Germaine Greer devoted a ten-page chapter ('Pantomime Dames') to her contention that people who were born men could not be classed as women.

In 1991 Susan Faludi published Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. A year later Marilyn French (bestselling author of The Women's Room in 1977) repeated the trick with The War Against Women. These hugely successful books thrived on the notion that although rights had been achieved there was now a concerted campaign under way to roll that progress back.

So at the 'Women's March' in London in January 2018 one of the placards waved by a young woman with pink hair read 'No Country for Old White Men'.59 One irony was that one of the Socialist Worker banners beside her read 'No to racism'. The sadness was that the young woman was waving her placard just beside the Cenotaph, which admittedly commemorates a lot of white men, but white men who never had a chance to grow old.

Just as a popular strand of feminism turned from celebrating women to vilifying men, so a portion of black studies started attacking people who were not black. A discipline intended to de-stigmatize began to re-stigmatize

there is the one that simultaneously insists that women are in every meaningful way exactly the same as men, possessing the same traits and competencies and able to challenge them on the same turf at any time. Yet simultaneously, magically, they are better than men. Or better in specific ways. All this seems perfectly

Fourth-wave feminists are trying to get 'All men are trash' or just 'Men are trash' trending on social media. One of those who whipped this along is the British fourth-wave feminist writer Laurie Penny, author of various blog compilation books, including the charmingly titled Bitch Doctrine (2017). In February 2018 Penny could be found on Twitter saying, '"Men are trash" is a phrase I adore because it implies waste.

ironically, we call this attempt by some women to be more like men "feminism," which is more than a little bit like calling an attempt by cats to be like dogs felinism.