Feminism Quotes

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

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

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

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

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.

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.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

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

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.