I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that,… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“CLOTALDO. What then dost thou mean to do? ROSAURA. Kill the Duke. CLOTALDO. A gentle dame, Who no father's name doth know,… — Pedro Calderón de la Barca Copy Share Image
“If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
What's happening with feminism in general is I think that, as a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the… — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing about oppression: It’s rarely the result of one person’s actions and often it’s not even intentional. As philosopher Carol… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“When feminist impulses are recorded, they are, almost always, the writings of privileged women who had some status from which to speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“[U]ntil feminists work to empower femininity and pry it away from the insipid, inferior meanings that plague it - weakness, helplessness, fragility,… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
“People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.” — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death… — John Kelly Copy Share Image
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton was urging voters to make history, but a lot of voters, particularly women, had trouble with her history. And she… — Betsy McCaughey Copy Share Image
Fifth Harmony are all feminists. It's our duty to reach out to people and let them know a woman can be just… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image