Feminism Quote by Rebecca West Download Open image ““People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”” — Rebecca West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Feministic-discrimination Gender inequality Gender roles Gender stereotypes Womens-liberation
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I’m a feminist because each time I hear about an abhorrent action towards someone that is based on or influenced by their gender, it… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image
“Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“A feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.” — Hunter Avallone Copy Share Image
“I mean, I’m not not a feminist. I mean, I believe I’m a human before I’m a woman.” You say this because you are… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West 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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“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.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“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… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“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… — Helen Brown Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“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