Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Jane Fonda

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

Vandana Shiva

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

David Ben-Gurion

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

Anita Sarkeesian

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

Ani Difranco

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..

Ani Difranco

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

Andrea Dworkin

The universal religion - contempt for women.

Andrea Dworkin

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

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.

Dennis Miller

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

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.

Germaine Greer

After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever before.

Clare Boothe Luce

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Gina Torres

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

Mariella Frostrup

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

John Stuart Mill

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Larry Flynt

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Libba Bray

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Nora Ephron

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

Susan Faludi

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

Susie Bright

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Tavi Gevinson

Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

Sylvia Plath

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

Sylvia Plath

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Roxane Gay

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

Phyllis Schlafly

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Robin Morgan

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.