Feminism Quotes

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.

They always always understimate women

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time around a man. Hell, I’d never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?

Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.

I don't need a man to be happy.

I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don’t want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn’t “feminine.

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.

You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a deeper animosity we owe it to ourselves to ex

Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse to follow His ways.

Press button woman was there for himFor whatever he was wanting.No demand was too bigPress button woman knew her gig.

Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.

Girls don't go to law school, " I told him."No, but women do.

If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters.

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world.

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called a deity.

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they're willing to work harder at it.

Ni dieu ni maître!(Neither God nor master)[Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.