Feminist Quotes

She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly s...

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing….I’m a cloud, conge...

Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps...

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

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...

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

she allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed f...

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally th...

Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into...

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposa...

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from t...

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it do...

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work ...

I have a suspicion - and hear me out, 'cause this is a rough one - I have a suspicion that the defin...

Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty t...

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...

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

The king was pregnant.

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...

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

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

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...

My father lost me to the Beast at cards

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and...

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women...

Love is a word, another kind of open.As the diamond comesinto a knot of flameI am Blackbecause I com...

Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through ac...

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes cl...

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into b...

In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone w...

When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes cl...

Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and...

Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or c...

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster an...

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or...

Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would h...

No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent hom...

There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they...

What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'emp...

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be int...

I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unl...

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was t...

You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so - an...

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

It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but w...

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

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

Oh, why did he slap her when she’s a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not ...

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

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

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

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

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

...women, brave as stars at dawn

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

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with th...

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent...

Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred ...

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

No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of d...

The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independe...

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. L...

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're t...

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character ...

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character ...

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character ...

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character ...

When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a beari...

This book is written in blood.Is it written entirely in blood?No, some of it is written in tears. Ar...

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious d...

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two dec...

I hope I’m being clear, I didn’t say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. ...

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is...

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obvi...

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone ...

Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written...

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my w...

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the bla...

... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't...

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are…of being al...

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breast...