Feminism Quote by Laura Bates Download Open image “Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!” — Laura Bates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Hate Heels High Heel High heels Mean
I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous. — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
“The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.” — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
“Feminism is about women having choices and living the life they choose, not about hating men. Many feminists, like me, love and marry men… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Newton: but a lot of the guys here were in prison before they came here and they’ll still be in prison when they leave here…they associate their misery to the fact that they’re in prison, and it’s not that. I think a lot of my misery was me hating me, and hating me made me hate everyone else...Now, I feel… — Laura Bates Copy Share
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled. — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“It is not our conscience that torments us over our image; that is our ego tormenting us. Our conscience torments us when we behave in ways that are contrary to our values. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of your shame, it is conscience. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result… — Laura Bates Copy Share
Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?” — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean it doesn't… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000… — Laura Bates Copy Share
We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba. OSTOBA! A melltartó a barátom. A legkebelebb baratom. Mellesleg. Kivéve az a Janet Reger-féle balconette melltartót, ami pár centivel kisebb volt a kelleténél, és elszorította a vérkeringést a fejem felé. Na ja. Azt az egyet lelocsoltam… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
“I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins… — Annastacia Dickerson Copy Share Image
“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean… — Helen Brown Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social action designed to contest the gains made by the women's movement and the child protection movement. In efforts to characterise social workers and therapists as hysterical zealots, 'satanic ritual abuse' was, quite literally, 'made fun of':… — Michael Salter Copy Share
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
