Liberated Woman Quotes

• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

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• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  Wangari Maathai

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Should, Feels

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• To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Men, Personality, Rivalry

  "Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977". Book by Indira Gandhi, 1984.

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• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

  Kenny Loggins

  Thinking, Opposites, Males

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

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• Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sex, Men, Feminism

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• A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

  Betty Ford

  Self, Choices, Freedom Of Choice

  "A Feminist? Definition Varies With the Woman", www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1975.

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• Law and justice are not always the same.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Law, Justice

  "Open Secrets : Ninety-four Women in Touch with Our Time". Book by Barbaralee Diamonstein, 1972.

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• Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

  Naomi Wolf

  Erotic, Desire, Sexiness

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• It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

  Ibn Warraq

  Religious, Gay, Civilization

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Literature, Today

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Successful, Thinking, Names

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• I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.

  Cee Lo Green

  Hot, Aggressive, Sexually

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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• I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Sex, Proud, Facts

  "An Interview With Gennifer Flowers: On First Indiscretions". Interview with J. Ryan Gilfoil, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 4, 1998.

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• The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.

  Ghada al-Samman

  Believe, Men, Clothes

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Social Values, Workplace

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Names, Long, Gender

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• I don't really want to say need because to me--an aggressive, liberated woman--need sounds too pathetic. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe need and want sometimes go together. Maybe I do need and want a man. *************************************************************************************************************************************

  Phyllis Hyman

  Men, Together, Sound

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Cities

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• The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Keys, Doors, Tolerance

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at home and take care of children [and debate about hijab]. And there are other women who are saying you are criticizing my decision as a free liberated women to stay home and take care of my children.

  Ari Shapiro

  Children, Home, Decision

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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