Feminism Quotes

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

The personal is political.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along.

A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times