Feminism Quotes
Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.
May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.
Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.
Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.
Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.
We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.
Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!
We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.
Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.
Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.
Feminism is a way of thinking and being, not a way of dressing. You know a feminist by her gaze, not her neckline.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.
Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!
Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.
Do not judge a woman on her knees_you never know how tall she is when she stands!
He comes.And he comesloadedwith noise pollution.If I ever prayed for anything, it was for a manto shut up.
Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?
By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.
If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.
As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.
If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, " Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.
I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.
No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.
Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.
Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive
When my father is stern, no one chastises him. I don’t think it’s fair that when I act similarly, I’m seen as cruel. I’m making a huge decision, and I’m trying to be wise about it.
Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilightNo I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.
Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.