Quotes on Feminist

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

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.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.