Feminism Quotes

Feminism is small revolutions, every day

Woman's cause is one and universal.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Is there no way out of the mind?

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.