Feminism Quotes

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

Everyone has a home but me.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I don't want anyone, especially a man, telling me what I can or cannot do with my money, job, or body.

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women’s shame.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.

Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

...you see what you wantand you want what you see, but if I have anything to say about it, that willnever beme.

The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.

I am not a Damsel In Distress who needs a Prince Charming. I am more of Rani Laxmi Bai who rides a Sturdy Horse.

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means someone's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

For some reason, people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: 'When there are nine.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

Do you know why I am unstoppable? It is because I decide my stopping line. ~ Aarush Kashyap

You can be freak of the week, critical thinker & a domestic goddess all in one. There is a beauty in your layers, never dumb yourself down.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.

I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks.

The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt.

This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world.

So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could wear...real armor?

Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks.

Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has!

I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.

I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.

Megan, you just single handedly set the women’s movement back twenty years

Power is the ability not to have to please