Best Feminist Sayings
798 Feminist quotes by 448 unique authors
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I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
— Paula Cole
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
— Claudette Colbert
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Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
— Estelle Ramey
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I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but…
— Jerry Falwell
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I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
— Margaret Trudeau
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Give a woman a job and she grows balls.
— Unknown Author
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It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
— Frank O'Connor
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
— Shana Alexander
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
— Erica Jong
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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see…
— Ralph Nader
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No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
— William Ruckelshaus
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We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs.…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
— Jane Rule
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We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
— Fay Weldon
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One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
— Susan Brownmiller
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Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily…
— Garrett Hardin
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.
— Chelsea Clinton
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It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that…
— Lena Dunham
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It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When…
— Lady Gaga
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