Feminism Quotes

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

The future shouldn't be female or male---but one of women and men working together. That's the real definition of equality.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other w

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

A woman is human.She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.Likewise, she is never less.Equality is a given.A woman is human.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.

On a planet where for thousands of years, even today, a woman's worth has been judged exclusively by the productivity of her womb, what the hell is the point of a barren woman?

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity.

A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.

Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?

for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above groundfor burned mermaids and sick vampire girlsfor wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obviously a woman: all the men are trying to do her, and mostly they're failing.

Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much they know and care.

I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

Handle with care. Probably has Views. Do not attempt to kiss hand.

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!

Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men.