Feminism Quotes

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less ...

She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

Then he started his period.One week in bed.Two doctors in.Three painkillers four times a day.And lat...

But behind each player sttod a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. Rapunze...

I'm not the first or the lastto stand on a hillock,watching the man she marriedprove to the worldhe'...

A femme fatale and a warrior princess.

Aaron was wearing a T-shirt that was practically transparent with washing and sweatpants with a hole...

In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man ...

I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

I am just as human as the man.

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, i...

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed ...

Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"...

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...

My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the w...

if people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and injust, the wicked people would h...

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...

Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...

I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable ...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a...

In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever...

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven ...

They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?"...

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and o...

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of h...

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does no...

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I...

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had...

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and prov...

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty m...

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evi...

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.We'd see what Mr. Colt ...

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically ...

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable....

​If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over a...

Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sor...

Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't ...

Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we did...

We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.

Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non-Nigerians, “bot...

Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had m...

When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult t...

Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it ...

Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather ...

Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attac...

Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should...

Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sad...

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach th...

...above all, let your focus be on remaining a full person. Take time for yourself. Nurture your own...

There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, ...

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind...

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becom...

A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our idea...

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to b...

I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But ...

I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot ...

The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent,...

At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss a...

Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don’t think like that. I don’t e...

But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leav...

And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile ego...

Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a l...

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is ...

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambit...

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind...

We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside th...

Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about a...

But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we le...

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve t...

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for ...

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact ab...

Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each oth...

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was...

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can sta...

She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.

But she didn’t want to rest! – Her blood ran through her more slowly, its pace domesticated, like a ...

Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a...

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

Connie’s man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda’s a bit jeering. But that is how men are! Ungrateful an...

I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us...

I added, that whoever the woman was that had an estate, and would give it up to be the slave of a gr...

A woman of feeling does not easily give way. You may call it pride, or tenacity, call it what you wi...

Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the...

She will be your living hell.

With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It’s OK to fuck around if you’re...