Academic Quote by Audre Lorde

“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.”

— C. N. Lester

Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward…

— Michelle Dean

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

— Tammy Bruce

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

— Phyllis Schlafly

“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture…

— Bell Hooks

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help…

— Robin Morgan

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

“feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women…

— Bell Hooks

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every…

— Margaret Mead

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie