Quotes About Feminism

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

If women had power, we wouldn't need Spanx.

What can we do? We're only women, she says. But it's because I'm a woman, that I dare to go.

It's normal." Doc grinned. "The mating ritual of all animals. The males fight for dominance over their females. Human males have lost the fight in the past generations with feminism and equal rights and getting in touch with their sensitive sides," he snickered. "Callan's DNA refuses to allow him the choice in dominating her. It's part of his genetic code.

Obviously, the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women, who are twice oppressed. So I imagine that they react accordingly: as oppression makes people more militant, women become twice militant, because they are twice oppressed.

As a feminist you mustn't blame the other woman," a neighbor told her. "As a feminist I request that you no longer speak to me," Kit replied.)

A veteran of the gender wars.

Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die!

I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…

I shall never 'go and marry' anyone, observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself

Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. -Jo March

No, winking isn't ladylike.

My dear girls I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world - marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.

No puedo conformarme con haber nacido mujer, y ahora más que nunca, pues quisiera luchar al lado de papá y sin embargo me veo obligada a permanecer en casa haciendo calceta como una vieja.

Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.

Aprendí que la mirada implacable con la que nos fileteamos y descuartizamos y despreciamos las mujeres es una mirada nuestra, una mirada interna, una exigencia loca con la que nosotras mismas nos esclavizamos

Me considero feminista o, por mejor decir, antisexista, porque la palabra feminista tiene un contenido semántico equívoco: parece oponerse al machismo y sugerir, por tanto, una supremacía de la mujer sobre el hombre, cuando el grueso de las corrientes feministas no sólo no aspiran a eso, sino que reivindican justamente lo contrario: que nadie resulte supeditado a nadie en razón de su sexo, que el hecho de haber nacido hombres o mujeres no nos encierre en un estereotipo

Under patriarchal monotheism, womanhood was a life sentence of second-order existence.