“And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
“Love between women could take on a new shape in the late nineteenth century because the feminist movement succeeded both in opening… — Lillian Faderman Copy Share Image
“It would be half-wrong to say it started with Sigmund Freud. It did not really start, in America, until the 1940s. And… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a… — Eugenio Maria de Hostos Copy Share Image
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play harder. Wear a hunched… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes.… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When the leaders of evangelicalism roll over for women preachers, the feminists have really won the battle. — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
When illiberal feminists aren't delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I am a self-proclaimed feminist in a lot of ways, but I am not going to say that I will take a… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
“hey’d say that heterosexual women become feminists when they finally understand that society doesn’t allow them to be complete and free human… — Lillian Faderman Copy Share Image
Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“... it occurs to me that this is what it means to be a feminist. Not a humanist or an equalist or… — Jennifer Mathieu Copy Share Image
“The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
“I was limited by stories that came before mine. We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
