Feminism Quotes

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Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

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

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

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

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

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

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

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

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.