Quotes and Sayings About Feminism
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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.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
-- Alison Bechdel -
She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.
-- Allison Williams -
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
-- Angela Carter -
The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.
-- Anita Sarkeesian -
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
-- Anna Quindlen -
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.
-- Annie Lennox -
Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
-- Annie Lennox -
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
-- Annie Lennox -
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
-- Aristophanes -
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
-- Audre Lorde -
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
-- Barbara Smith -
Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".
-- Bell Hooks -
Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
-- Bell Hooks -
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
-- Bell Hooks -
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.
-- Bell Hooks -
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.
-- Bell Hooks -
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
-- Bella Abzug -
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.
-- Betty Buckley -
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
-- Betty Buckley -
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
-- Betty Buckley -
Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.
-- Bridget Christie -
People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.
-- Bridget Christie
