Quotes About Feminism

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

for. We have feminist centers and feminist programs because we do not have feminist universities: that

She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).

Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

resolve and commitment. As a feminist, I wish the pope had addressed the ways that patriarchy, power-over relationships, and the church's history of misogyny have all contributed to our ecological crisis. We have

Men watch. Women watch themselves being watched.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it's how I spend my days, it's my job, it's not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

And Uhura stopping an important mission to bitch at her boyfriend I thought was insulting to everyone and not just the women.

Factually, each day defines Women's Day and specific Women's Day that exhibits the achievement and celebration of 364 days. Indeed, women carry the ball, having the female goalkeeper; thus, the goal is always for them, even though they still demand Women's Rights.

The Manism and Feminism, surpass all the limits, demanding awkward rights before adopting, realizing, and respecting their natural rights, which secure and assure real and virtuous status. Indeed, such nature constitutes the privacy of one's persona and dignity of life than the world-made rights, which represent privileges of motives, to hunt mostly feminism.

Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl to another. Dear Allen I'm glad you think I'm a poet. Love, Eileen. I'm the only woman you like, right Allen? Only the craziest thoughts passed through my mind. Finally he started getting embarrassed. Just sign it. Come by and write something better when you think of it. I scrawled something. I forget what it was.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn't our century.