Quotes About Feminism

I don't want to be the glam doll; that doesn't appeal to me at all.

I wanted to be a part of telling women there is no segregation. There is no need to ever not feel beautiful or glamorous. There should be nothing that gets in your way.

I don't like putting the female form behind glass or on a wall, further objectifying it as much as art does.

There should be a lot of bands like the Go-Go's out there, but there aren't.

I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

I did 'Padman' not only because of its social message. I did it because it was a good story.

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

Brutal worlds where females are secondary to the action, mere chattels or bargaining counters, may be realistic, but they're not for me. I aim to write women who are genuine.

a woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

i was born a bitch. i was born a painter.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman

I shan't marry a prince!

The term "tomboy," one nineteenth-century author recalled, looking back at the pre–Civil War era, "was applied to all little girls who showed the least tendency toward thinking and acting for themselves.

No matter what the ladies' contribution, the Revolution was not fought to prove that all women were created equal.

When I was young if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll. —Susan B. Anthony A

smart woman can do very well in this country. —A young woman in nineteenth-century California

It was Kahlo's responses to the experiences of her life, rather than the experiences themselves, combined with her rare talent for articulating them visually and giving meaning to them that distinguish Kahlo as a towering cultural figure.

Kahlo signed several letters as 'La Malinche' and referenced her repeatedly through her imagery, thus cementing her identification with the Chingada-Malinche. In doing so she rehabilitated the most despised and misunderstood character of Mexican history and exposed the misogynist forces that maligned her and continued to oppress her daughters during Kahlo's lifetime.

A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.

When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.