Quotes about Feminism
We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud.
— Gloria Steinem
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
— Gloria Steinem
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).
— Gloria Steinem
women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
— Gloria Steinem
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
— Gloria Steinem
I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.
— Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.
— Hillary Clinton
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
— Hillary Clinton
I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.
— Hillary Clinton
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
— Marianne Williamson
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.
— Gloria Steinem