Quotes About Feminism

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

Recognize that the issues we face as women advancing in business are issues my grandmother would have loved to have had. And fight the good fight nonetheless. For yourself and your peers - but also for your daughter, when it's her turn.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

Feminism is like any female-dominated group - a perpetual catfight.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

Jangan sebut aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki. Tapi bukan berarti aku tidak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai. (Nyai Ontosoroh)

apa yang sudah dibaca Kartini digenggamnya terus di dalam tangannya, dan ikut memperkuat moralnya

Bukang perempuang undang harta, Ngama, hanya harta mencari perempuang.

Age is truly an oppression for women.

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

Why has woman's work never been of any account? Why in every family are the mother and three or four servants obliged to spend so much time at what pertains to cooking? Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think "of those kitchen arrangements," which they have put on the shoulders of that drudge—woman.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.