Feminism Quotes · Page 134

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.

— bell hooks

“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Feminism is a part of life, everyday, not just a theory. Teach young boys to respect women, at home and at school.

— Anonymous

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several…

— Mona Charen

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

— Dennis Prager

“Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?”

— Cat Winters

“Feminism? It might change society, but it will certainly not change the man.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“You raise boys to reject everything feminine then get mad when they become men who hate women.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest…

— Otto de Joux

“I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists…

— Carleen Brice

“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black…

— Patricia Hill Collins

We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no…

— Susan J. Douglas

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can…

— Taslima Nasrin

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable…

— Erica Jong

“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted…

— Christopher Hitchens

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,…

— Sylvia Plath

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

— Carine Roitfeld

“I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.”

— Kay Mills

“the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power”

— Jacqueline Rose

The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and…

— Caroline Glick

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

— Stephen Marche

“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man”

— Virginia Woolf