Top Feminism Quotes

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

The idea of "common oppression" was a false and corrupt platform disguising and mystifying the true nature of women's varied and complex social reality. Women are divided by sexist attitudes, racism,...

Power is the ability not to have to please

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.

The feminist girls she knew at Oberlin, her roommate among them, were the kind of people who made you feel bad for liking what you liked. Sometimes when Emily was tired or blue she liked to watch "Whe...

Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect.

The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm.

Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a bitch or a dyke. It means you believe in equa...

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are.

God is not a racist.God is not a sexist.God is not a tribalist.God is not a chauvinist.God is not a fascist.God is not an elitist.God is a philanthropist.God is a pacifist.God is a feminist.God is a p...

In his 1964 talk on feminism, Winnicott says something he's been saying all along. ...We find that the trouble is not so much that everyone was inside and then born, but that at the very beginning eve...

It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the...

Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say this is due to patriarchy is to beg the question of the...

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been women...

Through the practice of compassion and forgiveness, I was able to sustain my appreciation for her work and cope with the grief and disappointment I felt about the loss of this relationship. Practicing...

We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn’t do this. We mustn’t play Hot Potato with our pain. Let’s abso...

Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not?I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't. It would be th...

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarelyWent to their deaths more proud than this one went.Some nights of appre...