Feminism Quotes

...Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says...

When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared the...

[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to...

Anytime there's a bad female stand-up somewhere, some dickhead Interblogger will deduce that “women ...

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's l...

My unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism...

My unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism...

In 1995, each cast at The Second City was made up of four men and two women. When it was suggested t...

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domesticat...

It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the bu...

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a...

I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enorm...

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it...

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not mo...

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because ...

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you ...

What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care...

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he ne...

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but...

The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England...

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his...

The king was pregnant.

I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; ...

Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people w...

Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...

You won’t shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that beca...

That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if...

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, ...

Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, d...

Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up som...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant b...

Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was co...

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

It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income w...

I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you aft...

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom th...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as frie...

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was...

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ag...

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

It is much more important to be oneself than anything else.

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the re...

Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives,...

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

Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who h...

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transiti...

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of t...

Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, wa...

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a trag...

She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for...

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of...

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

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

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity an...

The conventional public opposition of 'liberal' and 'conservative' is, here as elsewhere, perfectly ...

I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am...

I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -Wi...

I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as th...

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came b...

I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are femin...

To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was ...

I don’t want your babies, Felix. I can assure you I’m not sitting up here like some tragic fallen wo...

Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why ...

Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surp...

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...

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

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...

In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certai...

The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the ...

Woman-identification is a source of energy, a potential springhead of female power, violently curtai...

As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning ...

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

I have chosen to use the terms lesbian existence and lesbian continuum because the word lesbianism h...

The effect of male-identification means ‘internalizing the values of the colonizer and actively part...

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the ...

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerab...

In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing viol...

Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world th...

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our ...

Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new cr...

the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,the lost brother, the twin ---for him did we leave our m...

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all preh...

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who sta...

You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -...