Feminist Quotes - Page 27

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2649, Delphi Classics

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• As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

  Caitlin Moran

  World, Born, Default

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• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

  Caitlin Moran

  Encouragement, Makeup, Thinking

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  Hanna Rosin

  Class, Female, Structure

  "Hanna Rosin: 'I feel miscast in the gender wars'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  Hanna Rosin

  Thinking, Should

  "Hanna Rosin: 'I feel miscast in the gender wars'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  Hanna Rosin

  Type, Fiery

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• The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

  Hanna Rosin

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

  Jessica Valenti

  Clinton, Traitor, Young

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• You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspirational, Women, Two

  Jane Fonda (2006). “Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion”

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• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Blow, Paris

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.21, Random House

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• Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

  Gloria Steinem

  Motivational, Women, Empowerment

  "Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Women, Empowering

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• I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

  Doris Lessing

  Common Sense, Hated, 1960s

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• As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Children, Fighting

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Cutting, Army

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• ...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Hate, Men, Reason

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• ..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his kids, and then discovered that, as mothers, they were never supposed to have their own money, their own identity, their own aspirations, time to pee, or a brain. And yes, some women indeed became bad-tempered as a result. After all, no anger, no social change.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Fun, Kids

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• Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Struggle, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

  Joanna Russ

  Writing, Adventure, Men

  Joanna Russ (2005). “The Two of Them”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Stupid People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Squares, Virginia

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.288, Univ of California Press

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• Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Independent Women, Body, Temperature

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

  Anais Nin

  Hate, Heart, Independent

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