Feminism Quotes

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.

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

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.

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.

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

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

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

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.

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

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

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

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

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

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.