Capture Quote by Marisa Tomei

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

— Marisa Tomei

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

Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their…

— John Lewis

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women,…

— Ellen Goodman

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I…

— Adrienne Rich

I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant…

— Winona LaDuke

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the…

— Ai-jen Poo

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

— Alice Walker

When I make a film about a woman, it is possible that my feminist politics surfaces somewhere but it is not with the intention…

— Aparna Sen

Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain,…

— George Gilder

The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now.…

— Betty Friedan

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha