Feminism Quotes

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

The king was pregnant.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

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

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

... 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.

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

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

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

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!

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.