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Feminist Quotes by Gloria Steinem
- Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown…
- Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
- Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
- The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who…
- People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true…
- A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as…
- If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its…
- Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
- No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the…
- Most women are one man away from welfare.
- Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
- Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
- If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
- A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
- The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
- It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward…
- The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
- For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families…
- Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
- Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
- A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
- Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
- If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is…
More Feminist Quotes
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey
- The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
- I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. — Ruth Benedict
- Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather… — Bjork
- I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. — Elayne Boosler
- I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
- There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber. — Jo Brand
- I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte
- One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. — Tammy Bruce
- The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley
- A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. — Julie Burchill