Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samir Husni

Ms. did well at the height of the feminist movement and then it faded. Ms. was aimed at a need, that women needed to prove themselves. Cosmo is not something women need. It's something women desire.

Eleanor Smeal

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Dixie Lee Ray

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Naomi Wolf

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

Roxane Gay

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.

Lynn Coady

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Caitlin Moran

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

Caitlin Moran

Women are feminist by default.

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Dennis Prager

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Camille Paglia

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Camille Paglia

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Caitlin Moran

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Dennis Miller

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Bella Abzug

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

bell hooks

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

bell hooks

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.