Feminism Quotes

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier t...

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

Talk about a group that is REALLY suffering, it's women in America. To be a woman in America is just...

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else...

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I k...

We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticip...

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is someth...

Younger woman says, “I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.”“Yes,” [older w...

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad."“Yes,” said Kate. “I know it. And so...

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.“Yes,” said Kate. “I know it. And so ...

I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination ...

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren...

What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women...

It is a formidable list of jobs: the whole of the spinning industry, the whole of the dyeing industr...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something abou...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is ru...

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won'...

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast whic...

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you wi...

Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her ...

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they ...

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a ...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the sof...

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...no...

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat ou...

We should give to our rulers, our sires and sons no rest until all our rights— social, civil and pol...

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this...

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing tha...

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the publ...

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books...

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all found...

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphe...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can...

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards wo...

We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...

But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her o...

Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a 'yes' and 'no', and 'an...

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, ...

But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comfor...

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good ...

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but...

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t w...

I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers ...

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other,...

What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if ...

I don't believe what you believe," I yelled, "and I don't respect your beliefs and I don't respect y...

Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as ful...

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is the...

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a...

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so th...

or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much...

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery ...

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in th...

Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mothe...

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much m...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the...

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and...

The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and t...

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck thi...

In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of ...

The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it w...

Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to ...

The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman...

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulatio...

In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy ...

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution i...

Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationsh...

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of...

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.