Quotes About Feminism

I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be...

Yet when women are spoken for but do not speak for themselves, such dramas of liberation become only the opening scenes of the next drama of confinement. Until women break free for themselves, the chains that make madness a female malady, like Blake's "mind forged manacles," will simply forge themselves anew.

I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Revolutionary power grows out of the lips of a pussy

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

I became a much more ardent citizen and feminist than anyone about me in the intermediate years would have dreamed possible. I had learned that if you wanted to institute any kind of reform, you could get far more attention if you had a vote than if you lacked one.

Quale sarebbe il crimine?». «Lo sperpero di intelligenza. Una comunità che trova naturale soffocare con la cura dei figli e della casa tante energie intellettuali di donne, è nemica di se stessa e non se ne accorge».

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

The university doesn't free women but completes their repression.

Parlai di me come se avessi cercato da sempre, per impormi, di essere maschio nell'intelligenza - io mi sono inventata dai maschi, colonizzata dalla loro immaginazione, [...].

A universidade não liberta as mulheres, mas aperfeiçoa sua repressão.

A woman who wants to write has unavoidably to deal not only with the entire literary patrimony she's been brought up on and in virtue of which she wants to and can express herself but with the fact that that patrimony is essentially male and by its nature doesn't provide true female sentences.

Isabel le disgustaba que establecieran diferencias entre ella y sus hermanos. Le humillaba la idea de que el único futuro para las mujeres fuera el matrimonio. Hablar del matrimonio como de una solución la dejaba reducida a una mercancía a la que había que dar salida a cualquier precio.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

se desprecia a las mujeres, se les consume, se les desecha, se les estigmatiza, se les cuelga para siempre al árbol patriarcal y allí se les ahorca

Indem die Frau nicht mehr gefällt, tut sie den ersten Schritt zu ihrer Freiwerdung. Ein Tritt gegen die Basis einer Pyramide aus stiller Gewalt...

A feminine textual body is recognized by the fact that it is always endless, without ending: there's no closure, it doesn't stop, and it's this that very often makes the feminine text difficult to read," wrote Hélène Cixous, in a sentence that could definitely have been shorter.

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. Why

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

As a daughter is equal to ten sons, so a woman may be equal to ten wicked men.

Beware of a person who says often about respecting or empowering woman and for this even takes out a public procession.