Feminism Quotes

Some leaders are born women.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.

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

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

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

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

Feminism is small revolutions, every day