Feminism Quotes
Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.
Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?
There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.
Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.
Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.
Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.
If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.
Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.
she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.
Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.
Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.
a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.
Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.
... motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible.
It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
Immoral women do not exist", said the organist. "That this only a superstition. On the other hand there exist women who sleep thirty times with one man, and women who sleep once with thirty men.
I am a woman with wings, ' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.
The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.
The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.
Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.
#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.
Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness
How beautiful this city, or perhaps any in the world, is to a woman who knows her bed awaits her even as she lingers, barefoot in the rain at midnight.
The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.
A woman’s mission centered on home and family — vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.
Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt not, ” now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, “You will.
Our generation of women is clearing the path for our daughters, granddaughters, women and girls down the line, to be safe to be the woman or girl they are.
If women have failed to make “universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal, ” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?
Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why?
... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.
The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.
They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.
Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.
At breakfast one Saturday I decided to tell Hank my desire to go back to work. He explodes, 'What can you do? You can't make enough to buy your own Kotex
Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.
What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?
Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.
But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.