Feminism Quotes
Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.
When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?
I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.
A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.
What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice, ' she said.
Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew "Sistehood is powerful.
When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.
The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby.
Strip clubs let everyone down. Men and women approach their very worst here.
We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes.
Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.
Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country.
The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.
Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively.
For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.
Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.
Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.
But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.
Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.
In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.
Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.
The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.
Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.
But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.
There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.
The Goddess helps us heal the deep wound within us that tells us we are unworthy.
A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?
Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man’s life.
Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Window issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on "All the Patriarchal Bullshit.
But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace.
One female who knows what to dois better than a thousand males who don't.
First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.
It was the women of afghanistan, my mother believed, who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country
Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.
. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.
There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.
As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.
The feminine political voice is personal. It's intimate. It's caregiving and life enhancing. It's about bringing more love, caring and justice into the world. It's also fierce and determined.
Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.
A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.
I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.
She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?
I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man.
