Top Feminism Quotes

Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.

And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving...

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and...

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and mor...

It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her...

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve...

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition-- women will only feel healthy if we are t...

Like most guys, I had bought into the stereotype that all feminists were white, lesbian, unattractive male bashers who hated all men. But after reading the work of these black feminists, I realized th...

Adolescence is never graceful or beautiful. Our first steps are wobbly, full of stumbles and spills. Our first words are mispronounced and barely comprehendible. Our first kisses are sloppy and wet. T...

The most sexy trait in a woman is- when she starts taking the world by a storm!

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her Health: if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.