Feminism Quotes

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

Abortion-centered feminism is dead.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only way but for very many people it is the most important way.

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.

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.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

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.

Young girls getting into feminism.

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.