Feminism Quotes

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

The future of rock belongs to women.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.