Feminism Quotes

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

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

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.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

Stop telling women to smile.

Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.

Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.

He is a good kisser. I can definitely vouch for that.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

When God made man she was practicing.