Feminism Quotes
Why must I always be a man's servant?" Lada demanded. "If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant.
I'm sure lovely girls such as yourselves need not worry about this"—Madame LaRoche begins, and I have a hunch we're about to be cautioned against something we enjoy
-You dressed me like a woman-I did-It was insulting-Only if you think a woman is lesser than man.-Aren't they?-A woman saved your life
The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.
Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?
Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.
If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.
I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.
I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.
Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210
That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".
The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.
the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed
Life's struggle is a partnership. We fight and win together, or we truly lose the vision of our powerful spirituality and awesome oneness.
Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.
Life's lessons are designed that we would rise from 'The Fall' (or our failures) and be restored to our Divine nature.
The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.
To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!
There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.
Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.
To slur “feminism” into “humanism” is to usurp women’s voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
we bwlive that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural entities
many efforts on bahalf of of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case
It wouldn’t be very ladylike to punch a guy in the balls, but it isn’t very manlike to harass a woman because she has different parts and a sweet face.
It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact.
We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But a 120lb woman save the galaxy? YOU GO TOO FAR, SIR.
Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.
It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe.
A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.
Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.
When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.
If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.