A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.
The political is personal.
Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.
Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
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