Feminism Quotes

Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

I'm not the first or the lastto stand on a hillock, watching the man she marriedprove to the worldhe's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pi

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

...What's more, I live in Berkeley, California. If princesses had infiltrated OUR little retro hippie hamlet, imagine what was going on places where women actually shaved their legs!

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

You can cower, ” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.

I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

I’ve seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs.

Women who got married got screwed.

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,

All women speak two languages:
the language of men
and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
the language of queens.

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

We've never heardAbout a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have livedIn history can't measure upIn bravery against the Maid.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

DISARM ALL RAPISTSBut what will we doWith their legs?

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another

Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?

The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

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

Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.