Best Feminist Words
798 Feminist quotes by 448 unique authors
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I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does as well obviously. She's very determined, I am as well. I like to think that I…
— Emma Watson
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
— Virginia Woolf
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My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
— Marilyn French
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If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking…
— Melinda Gates
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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by…
— Ayelet Waldman
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To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a…
— Suzanne Vega
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There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.
— Marlo Thomas
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and…
— Anna Quindlen
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
— Robin Morgan
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I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something…
— Lorde
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The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.
— Linda Gordon
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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
— Robin Morgan
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Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
— Andrea Dworkin
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In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
— Andrea Dworkin
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To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Men use the night to erase us.
— Andrea Dworkin
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The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.
— Ti-Grace Atkinson
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You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and…
— Jodie Foster
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If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary…
— Mary Daly
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for…
— Victoria Woodhull
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