Movement Quote by Constance Baker Motley

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the…

— Michael Moore

“while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a “direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,” the ironic side…

— Rebecca Traister

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

— Anne Nicol Gaylor

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no…

— Lynn Povich

There's a lot of women that wanted no part of this feminist movement way back in the late sixties. The modern era can be…

— Rush Limbaugh

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took…

— Pauley Perrette

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

— Clemence Dane

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights…

— Erica Jong

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

— Angie Dickinson

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for…

— Camille Paglia

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to…

— Susan Jacoby

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak.…

— James Hillman