Difficulty Quote by Germaine Greer

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it…

— Orson Bean

I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was…

— Betty Dodson

“Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.”

— Holly Grigg-Spall

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women understand capitalism–how…

— bell hooks

When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a…

— Dale Spender

“her choice to be, not only a poet but a woman who explored her own mind, without any of the guidelines of orthodoxy. To…

— Adrienne Rich

“To say that feminism is good for boys, that diversity makes a stronger team, or that collective liberation promises a greater, deeper freedom than…

— Dayna Tortorici

Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced that there…

— Henry Giroux

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

— Marianne Williamson

“Why does she [Borowski] rail against other women’s choices? Surely a core libertarian value is neutrality between different conceptions of the good?” Actually, no.…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can't be the way I…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel