America Quote by Hilda Scott

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into…

— Jessica Valenti

All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation…

— Betty Friedan

Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of…

— Bob Hope

“Suffragists had often staged political “pageants” in which they wore sashes emblazoned “Votes for Women.” But 1921, the year following the ratification of the…

— Rebecca Traister

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

— Gloria Steinem

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They…

— Jessica Valenti

“I disavowed feminism because I had no rational understanding of the movement. I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, “You are…

— Roxane Gay

I would never have seen myself as a gung-ho feminist growing up; my mum was quite scathing of bra-burners and things.

— Cathy Newman

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

— Romola Garai

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly…

— Camille Paglia

“My story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women’s liberation” would be cheered, not jeered. But…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as part of…

— Roxane Gay