Feminism Quote by Betty Friedan

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and…

— Andrea Dworkin

“we are living in an era when much of the feminism on display to the public is petty, mean-spirited, obsessed with trivialities, man-hating and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women…

— Rosalind Coward

“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

“The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes.”

— Ada Palmer

“I disavowed feminism because I had no rational understanding of the movement. I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, “You are…

— Roxane Gay

“Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as part of…

— Roxane Gay

“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

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

— Betty Friedan

“Lifestyle feminism ushered in a notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being…

— bell hooks

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Antifeminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of woman hating.”

— Andrea Dworkin