Feminism Quotes
It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.
I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.
How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?
If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone who doesn't believe in equality for women.
Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives
Studies show that girls - especially smarter ones - have severe problems in the area of self-confid
Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.
She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.
But she didn’t want to rest! – Her blood ran through her more slowly, its pace domesticated, like a beast that had trained its steps to fit in its cage.
In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting
I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.
Men are minded to conjure the most extraordinary tales about women who would question their place in the world.
I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.
Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.
I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...
Don't be concerned with other women's beauty. Only admire God's amazing work and wish them well., this earth was made to bite us in half and grind us to bone, but we were made to be kind.
There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.
Owning her face, unapologetically, or—even more revolutionarily—happily was the bravest thing she could possibly do.
I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.
She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.
Today's feminism infantilizes women. If feminism is not about freedom, then what the heck is it for? It just becomes a grievance lobby of victimhood games.
She was a professional. A professional who didn’t need five inches of makeup and f*ck-me cleavage to do her job.
The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.
You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women
Eight or nine out of ten mothers in our society today believe that they have accomplished their duty if their daughters, once married, are not sent home in divorce. -Daughters in Boxes
Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.
I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor."Can you just tell me what it says?" he says.
In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.
And if you looking for a surefire way to turn a comfortable party into a very alcohol-fueled romp through gender politics, bring up feminism.
They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.
The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.
She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart.
Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.
Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.
But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.
If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r’asscloth mouth
It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.