Feminist Quotes

I would not be able to write this sentence if it was not for feminism. I would not be able to buy a house, or go to work if it wasn’t for feminism. A lot of the freedom I have today comes from feminism. I am highly honored by what feminism has done for me. I dedicate these feminist quotes to all the feminists of the past and the present who have stood up for women’s rights including my beautiful feminist sister this ones for you.

• FEMINIST QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
  Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler


• Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement.
  Author unknown


• My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
  Ani Difranco


• There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
  Florynce Kennedy


• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
  Anaïs Nin


• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
  Roseanne Barr


• I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
  Madonna


• I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
  Gloria Steinem


• 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, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
  Marya Mannes


• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
  Clare Boothe Luce


• 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


• I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
  Clarie Sargent


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


• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl.”
  Shirley Chisholm


• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
  Cissy Farenthold


• Never let the hand you hold, hold you down.
  Author Unknown


• It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
  Susan B. Anthony


• History is herstory too.
  Author Unknown


• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
  Alanis Morissette


• I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
  Robert Mueller


• I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
  Mary Wollstonecraft


• Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
  Faith Whittlesey


• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.
  Author Unknown


• You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.
  Jane Galvin Lewis


• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
  Robin Morgan


• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
  Marlo Thomas


• 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


• I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped!
  Author Unknown


• Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
  Liz Stanley and Sue Wise


• Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
  Sheila Rowbotham


• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
  Timothy Leary


• To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.
  Spanish Proverb


• I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
  Unknown Author (quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel)


• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
  Lois Wyse


• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
  Gloria Steinem


• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
  Isadora Duncan


• I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton


• 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.
  Julia Ward Howe


• Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
  Estelle R. Ramey


• I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
  Sarah Moore Grimké


• Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
  Golda Meir


• If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
  Mary Astell


• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
  Susan B. Anthony


• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
  Bella Abzug


• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
  Margaret Mead


• Most women are one man away from welfare.
  Gloria Steinem


• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
  Shana Alexander


• How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?
  Author Unknown


• The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor.
  Wilma Scott Heide


• I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.
  Cindy Olsen


• I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
  Margaret Trudeau


• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
  Maya Angelou


• Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
  Lynn Hecht Schafren


• Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused - as remarkable you might say - as most women.
  Jane Howard


• Sometimes the best man for the job isn't.
  Author Unknown


• Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
  Betty Rollin


• You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
  Lillian Gish


• Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
  Will Rogers


• We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
  Gloria Steinem

Thank you for passing by my feminist quotes. These feminist quotes make me proud to be a feminist. I am also very grateful to all the feminists out there and all who came before.




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