Quotes About Feminism

When people say, 'You run like a girl; you play like a girl,' it's not what it used to be. That shouldn't be negative. You should be proud to play like a girl.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?

we women are the most pathetic. First of all, we have to buy a husband. Spend vast amounts of money, just to get a master for our body – to add insult to injury.

It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman.

It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- Darling, could you stroke my vagina?-- you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.

To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

I'm sharing the fate of the women of my time who challenged men to battle

Their point of resemblance to each other & their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world- they preserved their individuality through men & not by opposition to them.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

Later on, still looking, she had tried to get involved with the Women's Community Center. She liked what they stood for but secretly wished they would wear just a little lipstick and shave their legs. She had been the only one in the room in full makeup, wearing pantyhose and earrings. She had wanted to belong, but when the woman suggested that next week they bring a mirror so they could all study their vaginas, she never went back.

Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What makes boys so great and woooonnnderfullll? I can do anything a boy can do

It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.

To be an illustration seems to me the only ideal worthy of a contemporary woman.

There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

My lyrics are for strong, independent women who are both smart and fashionable.

I feel like there should be someone to stick up for women and make them feel good and beautiful about themselves.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.