Quotes About Feminism

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.

I want a woman president - really, I do.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.

Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it's a bit like, 'Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?'

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

I have an equal opportunity womb!

When my daughter went to school, her last name was mine. The school insisted that her father's name be added to hers, not her mother's. The fact that the mother kept her in her womb for nine months is forgotten. Women don't have an identity. She has her father's name today and will have her husband's tomorrow.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.