Feminism Quotes

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.

something about the phrase - something abouthow i have to be unlike the womeni call sisters in order to be wantedmakes me want to spit your tongue out

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.

I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.

Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate.

The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

A feminist is a woman lover not a man hater

And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad."“Yes, ” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.“Yes, ” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

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.

And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.

Men so often became stubborn when they didn't get their way with the ladies in their lives.

In a world full of polished and perfected final drafts, she was the raw and honest scribbled story.

The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage

It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.

Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.

all of the oceans& galaxiesdid notconspire together tocreate mejust so i couldreproduce for you.-Startling Fact #1

The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.

Once The Game Is Over, The King And The Pawn Go Back In The Same Box

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.

[Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.

Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality...

Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?

I'm not a feminist. Many of those who carry its flag are as selfish as male chauvinists. They want privileges but not responsibilities. Bullies hiding under a fine cause.

For every woman who burned a bra, there's a man burning to wear one.

Let's Level the Playing Field!

The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

She will be your living hell.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.

Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?

Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.

...and in Wellington women in the bakery trade were able "to perform certain skilled operations for which they are particularly suited, at rate equivalent to two thirds the journeyman's rate".

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.