Quotes about Feminism

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

“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.”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”

“The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.”

“Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.”

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

“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”

“As a result of the feminist revolution, ''feminine'' becomes an abusive epithet.”

“Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.”

“The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.”

“Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.”

“Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.”

“The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”

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

“A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.”

“I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.”

“The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.”

“When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.”

“Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.”

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

“People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.”

“Men now monopolize the upper levels, depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.”

“I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.”

“Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.”

“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.”

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”