Feminism Quotes
Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.
A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.
So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.
But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.
Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From the Latin.
He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.
I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.
At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".
Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.
Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.
Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is
Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing
If Beyoncé Knowles and Miley Cyrus represent the latest branch of feminism, then surely the male-dominated power elite must be aroused with concern.
I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.
Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.
My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.
Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.
Forcing girls to be ashamed for doing the things that come natural to them — it's a ridiculous double standard, and we should all, frankly, tell anyone who judges us to screw off.
It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things--their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies.
Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.
I felt bad for the girls in my school, who flocked to prom like it was the second coming of Christ, complete with double-rainbows and unicorns.
So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies.
Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.
Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect.
Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.
Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.
Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.
The problem with gender is that is prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.
The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm.
Culture does not make people. People make culture. if it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
You won’t shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.
Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion, " she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort, " I say.
It doesn't matter what women wear. No matter what, someone's going to have a problem with it.
Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family
