Built Quote by Susan Faludi

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

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was…

— Betty Friedan

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a…

— Hanna Rosin

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

— Sally Ride

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

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

— Chris Chibnall

The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in…

— Rebecca Traister

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being…

— Steve Coogan

“Thousands of other future feminists lived in middle-class homes, growing up to be bright, popular, and good. Everything appeared to promise them a future…

— Sara M. Evans

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

— Betty Friedan

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't…

— Shulamith Firestone

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

— Alice Walker