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Feminist Quotes we like ...
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive. Leslie McIntyre
You have to admit that most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone. Francoise Gilot
Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Women are the only exploited group in history who have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong b.1942
I can't change my sex. But you can change your policy. Helen Kirkpatrick (1940), on being told a newspaper didn't have women on its foreign affairs staff, in Julia Edwards, Women of the World (1988)
The ceiling isn't glass; it's a very dense layer of men. Anne Jardim, The New Yorker (1996)
Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think its just reality. Alix Kates Shulman, Burning Questions (1978)
It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (1969)
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators - they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of? Barbra Streisand
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. Nancy Astor (British Politician)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around. - Geraldine Ferraro (The first woman to be nominated as Vice President of the United States)
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of this world. Louisa May Alcott
I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. Madonna
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. Pat Schroeder, New York Times Magazine, 1972, in response to a question about being both a mother and a Congresswoman
The best that 'beauty' offers is given to us all by right of femaleness. When we seperate 'beauty' from sexuality, when we celebrate the individuality of our features and characteristics, women will have access to a pleasure in our bodies that unites us rather than divides us. Naomi Wolf
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. Marlo Thomas
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. Sally Kempton
I knew in the moment when the pain was greatest...that there is no God known to man that cares about children or about women. And that the God of woman is autonomy. M'Lissa, Possessing the Secret of Joy (by Alice Walker)
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. Rebecca West
The future of rock belongs to women Kurt Cobain
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom. Anita Roddick
They're here, and as far as I know the sky is not falling yet (President Clinton regarding the high number of women in his presidential cabinet)
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)
'I'm not a feminist, some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them.......Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong. Kaz Cooke, The Modern Girl's Guide to Everything (1989)
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and agreed upon myths of its conquerors. Meridel Le Sueur, Crusaders (1955)
A man has to be Joe MCCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. Marlo Thomas, in First (1993)
A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space. Gloria Steinem, Moving Beyond Words (1994)
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