Feminism Quotes · Page 35

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

— Emma Watson

“Misogyny was born of fear of women.”

— Sarah B. Pomeroy

“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the…

— Olivia Wilde

“I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I still consider myself a feminist.

— Suzanne Vega

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

— Patti LaBelle

“I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like”

— Malebo Sephodi

“White knights are just predators with better timing.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

— Bell Hooks

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as…

— Katha Pollitt

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know…

— Moderata Fonte

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we…

— Amy Richards

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

— Jo Brand

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

— Kirsten Powers

“Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase “women and children”?”

— Charles Krauthammer

“Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.”

— Holly Bourne

“After attempting to outline Engels' thesis on the development of the family the following is said: "we are possessed of the myth…

— Catalina Adrianzen

“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white…

— bell hooks

“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I…

— Virginia Woolf

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my…

— Joss Whedon

“Women, know your worth! If a man is violent, your worth is clearly in your astounding potential to be his personal, unpaid,…

— Anonymous

“This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a misogynistic and patriarchal world…

— Laura Bates

...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

“Political economy tends to see work in capitalist societies as divided between two spheres: wage labor, for which the paradigm is always…

— David Graeber