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About Feminism

Quotes tagged as "feminism" (showing 1-30 of 1,832)

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
tags: education, feminism, men, women
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette Davis
tags: clichs, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes,
women
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None
of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane Austen, Persuasion
tags: clichs, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy,independence, men, misogyn
y, rationality, reason, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, strength,women, women-s-rights
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I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
Madonna

tags: feminism, humor, women

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

Gloria Steinem
tags: feminism, humour
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me
a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
tags: feminism, qotd
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Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a
vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
Sheng Wang
tags: feminism, humor, misattributed-betty-white
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Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women

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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Anas Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anas
Nin
tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me
entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Simone de Beauvoir
tags: feminism
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something
like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of
education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you
are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture.
The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by
people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their
predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than
others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself educating your own
judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded
and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
tags: conformity, education, feminism, knowledge-power, quip, school

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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Betty Friedan
tags: feminism, housekeeping, orgasm, sex, sexuality, women
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
tags: feminism, power, women
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Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
George Carlin
tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology,relationships, so
ns, women
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Gloria Steinem
tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
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Whats the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Dont hold back, now.
Youre probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. Ive even heard the
term mangina.
Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a
girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me thats not royally fucked up.
Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
tags: double-standards, eye-opening, feminism, gender-inequality, insults, men, names, sexism, woman,womanhood, wome
n
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,
and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
tags: feminism
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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Margaret Atwood
tags: apocryphal, feminism
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He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck
things up this badly.
George Carlin
tags: equality, feminism, feminist, george-carlin, god, men-and-women, religion
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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando
tags: clichs, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men,misogyny, selfdetermination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)
Madeleine Albright
tags: feminism, power, sisterhood, women
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It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about
how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire
tags: beautiful, existence, feminism, self-esteem
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for
you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial
intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal
danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect
your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure
born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered
only at a price I cannot afford to give.
Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested
books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of
already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and
this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe,
have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and
stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work
be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be
"different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of
energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to
ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.
Adrienne Rich
tags: feminism, inspirational
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Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is
like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every
culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is
sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need
equality. Kinda now.
Joss Whedon
tags: equality, fairness, feminism, freedom-of-choice, inspirational, truth
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She talks like you. Its not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag
whos only holding Cinderella back.
"Thats my girl.
Emma Chase, Tangled
tags: cinderella, fairy-tales, feminism, humor
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creationis that good for
the world?
Christopher Hitchens
tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions,sexism, women, wom
en-and-religion
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He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
tags: feminism
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power
of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers
and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night