Feminism Quotes

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; h...

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a cha...

It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows...

A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too m...

I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls in...

How was she not the quintessential woman in our culture, compulsively pleasing others in order to ac...

Every woman knows what I'm talking about when I say girls grow up with a desire to please, to cede t...

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in you...

A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video d...

Yes, for the love of God young women, come along – learn your limits. Or, rather, know society’s lim...

This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

Women who lead, read

This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a m...

Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?

Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the 'man in the house', now I put them on to my 6-year old ...

...this pattern of casual intrusion whereby women could be leered at, touched, harassed, and abused ...

If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone...

A slut isn’t a person, it’s in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, or an annoying eyelash. We deci...

...a woman, silent, voiceless, a mere woman who didn't bear on her shoulders the enormous responsibi...

I guess what I’m saying is, let’s keep lifting each other up. It’s not lost on me that two of the bi...

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they as...

Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held hi...

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

What about you and me, Adina?” Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. “I know I screwed up. Bu...

Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She ...

It had the word bitches in it, which is perfectly fine to use if you're a rapper or a director makin...

To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

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

I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescue...

Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , f...

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...str...

Eaton looks to the man next to him, who licks his lips before saying, “There are rules on paper and ...

Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power i...

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...