Quotes about feminism

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

Mill, John Stuart on feminism
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"Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on feminism
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"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."

O'Brien, Edna on feminism   

"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 si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way."

Paglia, Camille on feminism   

"The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship."

Pankhurst, Sylvia on feminism   

"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."

Parton, Dolly on feminism   

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

Peter, Laurence J. on feminism   

"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights."

Qaddafi, Colonel Muhammar on feminism   

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

Rich, Adrienne on feminism
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"Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize."

Saint-Point, Valentine De on feminism   

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

Schlafly, Phyllis on feminism   

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred -- it is the amphetamine of its believers."

Stassinopoulos, Arianna on feminism   

"Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships."

Stassinopoulos, Arianna on feminism   

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

Steinem, Gloria on feminism
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"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

Steinem, Gloria on feminism   

"I owe nothing to Women's Lib."

Thatcher, Margaret on feminism   

"If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist."

Thomas, David on feminism   

"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."

Thomas, Marlo on feminism   

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

Unknown, Source on feminism   

"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety."

Victoria, Queen on feminism   

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

West, Rebecca on feminism
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"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."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on feminism   

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

Woolf, Virginia on feminism
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"I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines. "

Kocher, Gerhard on feminism   

"Woman is like a drop of rain."

Tadj Abelkader on feminism