Feminist Quotes - Page 3

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.

There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations.