Top Feminism Quotes

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there be...

It did, in Scandinavia. When I first became prime minister 15 years ago, it was a cultural shock to many Norwegians. Today, four- year-olds ask their mommies: "but can a man be prime minister?" -Fourt...

The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back forty years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' they would say, '...

Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why?

What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than procreation are sluts.

Eight or nine out of ten mothers in our society today believe that they have accomplished their duty if their daughters, once married, are not sent home in divorce. -Daughters in Boxes

And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like...

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. Whit...

I would respect feminist who said "Single moms, are you kidding me? Stop taking government benefits because, the government is the patriarchy. So, you are taking things from the patriarchy so you dont...

Culture does not make people. People make culture. if it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.

DISARM ALL RAPISTSBut what will we doWith their legs?

I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

There is, I must admit, something very satisfying about making things from scratch, to know every dish in a meal was made by your own hands. As a lazy person, I'm a fan of premade things, but it was a...

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.