Feminism Quotes - Page 6

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.

You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all know I'm a girl, I'm a woman, but it's difficult to figure out how to talk about it and express how important it is without beating it with a hammer and having it be, "So you're a girl in music! So you're a girl in music!" Yes, I'm a girl in music - can we just talk about something else?

I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

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.

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

The future of rock belongs to women.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.