Feminism Quotes

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Guys are accessories, until one proves he's an necessity.

Guys are accessories, until one proves he's a necessity

All mothers breed dead children.They shall, perhaps, live later.When no longer dead, they are bornNot—by coincidence, by choice.

Women in love are patheticand I cannot be bothered, for now, I am back to metaphysicsand my armpits gather hair.

Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.

Just beacause I'm wearing revealing clothes doesn't mean I'm inviting them to look.

A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

I am afraid, my dear niece, that a ‘mere woman’ is something you most certainly are not.

She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?

I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to.

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.

You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.

I will not send you [Raimondo], they might murder you, but I do not think they will do anything to Catherine - she is a woman and they have great respect for her.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.

EVERYTIMEA GIRL WISHESTOBE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.

I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.

I am everything what u see and I can be anything what I want to be.

It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of the soul, body and pride of man?

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Humanity is mediocre. The majority of women are neither superior nor inferior to the majority ofmen. They are all equal. They all merit the same scorn.

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.