Feminist Quotes - Page 9

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

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.

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

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

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

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

Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.