Feminism Quotes - Page 5

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

Feminism is small revolutions, every day

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

Is there no way out of the mind?

I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.

The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.