Quotes of Feminism - somelinesforyou

“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”

- Rebecca West

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

- Valentine De Saint Point

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

- Andrea Dworkin

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

- Susan B. Anthony

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

- Charlotte Bunch

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

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ”

- Faith Whittlesey

“ 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. ”

- Susan B. Anthony

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

- Timothy Leary

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ 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 am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them. ”

- Henry James

“ If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft

“ In the battle of the sexes, woman gains her greatest victory by surrendering. ”

- Unknown

“ In the battle of the sexes, woman gains her greatest victory by surrendering. ”

- Unknown

“ Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. ”

- Bella Abzug

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

- Rush Limbaugh

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

- Rebecca West

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

- Angelina Grimke

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

- Angela Carter

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

- John Stuart Mill

“ The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women. ”

- Rosalind Coward

“ We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de siecle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ 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

“ Feminism is the radical concept that women are people. ”

- Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

“ I…have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. ”

- Rebecca West
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