Quotes About Feminism

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she'd never sit down. Well, would she? I

MALE, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Patriarchy is a kind of shirk [or idolatry] … stemming from the Satanic notion of istikbar (thinking of oneself as better than another) …

Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth.

I don't think it's any accident that a slice of pie comes in the exact same shape as a slice of pussy

Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth. If

I like that. I'm all for being an empowered female badass, but I still need someone to lift heavy things off the top closet shelf.

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.

A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved. For Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul.

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

Diyorum ki, bir gün sen de devrimci ve dans eden bir kad?nla baya??la?madan konu?abilirsen, i?te sizin devrim de ancak o zaman tamamlan?r.

The global attack on women, and the connected attempt by right-wing populism to reshape them into characters from The Handmaid's Tale, excludes no nationality, no social class, no religion and no privilege.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.