Feminism Quotes

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghett...

They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with t...

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my he...

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could n...

He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated h...

From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing h...

I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

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

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember:...

But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-mind...

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

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding wor...

I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had...

Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I thin...

Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have t...

There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when the...

Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a bitch is assertive,...

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having ...

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free...

Because I believe that deep down in woman's nature lies slumbering the spirit of revolt.Because I be...

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects,gardens to be weeded, dogs ...

If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or...

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

...the essential task of feminism is not to go looking around for a ready-made theory and then try t...

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this...

Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vin...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowleg...

Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine wher...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant wou...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?In this style, argue ...

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...

I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by t...

Gracious Creator of the whole human race! hast thou created such a being as woman, who can trace thy...

I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the gl...

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stand...

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...

Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.

She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud ...

Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, po...

We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt th...

Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improv...

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is mor...

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achi...

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and l...

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is ...

Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else...

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Y...

There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree w...

Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning...

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't d...

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man ca...

You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do yo...

Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it s...

Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character no...

You remind me of an old cat I once had. Whenever he killed a mouse he would bring it into the drawin...

Oh, as far as unsexing is concerned, who are we to throw stones? With us any girl that cannot find a...

The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and ...

Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in...

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-...

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. T...

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life...

I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatt...

For many of us it seems that to be a feminist in the way that we have seen or understood feminism is...

[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the grea...

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

I will be­lieve that the bat­tle of fem­i­nism is over, and that the fe­male has reached a po­si­tio...

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...

In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest o...

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

When God made man she was practicing.

I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, y...

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift...

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Char...

You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial expla...

Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.

Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Fe...

I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

Militant feminists are pro‐choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe ...

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up th...