Feminism Quotes

Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.

Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.

I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to.

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.

You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.

I will not send you [Raimondo], they might murder you, but I do not think they will do anything to Catherine - she is a woman and they have great respect for her.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.

EVERYTIMEA GIRL WISHESTOBE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.

I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.

I am everything what u see and I can be anything what I want to be.

It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From the Latin.

But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.

A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.