Quotes about Feminism
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
— Milan Kundera
But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.
— Carl Sagan
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— GK Chesterton
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
— Michelle Obama
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
— Lady Gaga
Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
— Gloria Steinem
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
— Sojourner Truth
If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
— Sojourner Truth
Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!
— Sojourner Truth
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
— Gloria Steinem
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
— Mae West