Best Feminism Lines
515 Feminism quotes by 275 unique authors
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Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our…
— Clementine Ford
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Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what…
— Eva Cox
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The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite…
— Lena Dunham
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
— Camille Paglia
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
— Gloria Steinem
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This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.
— George Gilder
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Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But…
— Dora Russell
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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.…
— Camille Paglia
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The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong…
— Margaret Mead
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with…
— Queen Victoria
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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and…
— Camille Paglia
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Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
— Unknown Author
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Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded,…
— Valerie Solanas
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We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be…
— Leslie Jamison
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Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social…
— Estelle Freedman
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We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which…
— Estelle Freedman
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People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon,…
— Lierre Keith
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It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries.…
— Julie Bindel
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
— Florence King
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the…
— Adrienne Rich
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Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war…
— Jerry Falwell
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The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy…
— Pat Robertson
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People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in…
— Lorde
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