Quotes on Feminism

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

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.

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

The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

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

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

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

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.'

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.