Feminism Quotes

• It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dirty

• Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we should have the same rights as men.

  

  Evie Wyld
  • Feels
  • Should
  • Feminist

• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Comfort
  • Advancement
  • Haunting

• I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • Picture

• I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Talent

• It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Ideas
  • Clear
  • Cases

• My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Men
  • Form
  • Humanism

• Feminism is the theory of gender oppression. To assume automatically that this makes it the theory of sexual oppression is to fail to distinguish between gender, on the one hand, and erotic desire, on the other.

  

  Gayle Rubin
  • Gender
  • Feminism
  • Oppression

• Feminism is about men, and how they view and treat women. So don’t we need to start marketing it that way? Make it for men?

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminism

• Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

  

  Carol Lee Flinders
  • Fire
  • Hunger
  • Spirituality

• Only when the problem is gone will we get rid of the word 'feminism'. But I doubt that will happen in my lifetime

  

  Caroline Criado-Perez
  • Problem
  • Doubt
  • Lifetime

• I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  

  Judy Chicago
  • Art
  • Feminism
  • Humanism

• The presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

  

  Amy Richards
  • Lives
  • Feminism

• I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.

  

  Geoffrey Howe
  • Looks
  • Feminism
  • Undecided

• Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

  

  Eva Cox
  • Change
  • Gender
  • Exists

• I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Men
  • Important
  • Goal

• But Friedan and Greer’s movement had passed them by: rape hysteria became fully integrated into mainstream feminism, resulting in such events as the so-called Take Back the Night rallies at colleges around America, which are premised on the idea that when darkness falls over the quad, male students metamorphose, werewolf-like, into potential rapists.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • Movement
  • Friedan
  • Rape hysteria

• Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

  

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • Political
  • Feminism
  • Relations

• People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • People
  • Word
  • Feminism

• Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Feminism
  • Angry Birds

• There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings.

  

  Bonnie Greer
  • People
  • Human Beings
  • Feminism

• Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Simple
  • Knows
  • Feminism

• Women are forced to pretend to be men. They're feigning this toughness. They're miserable. Study after study has shown that feminism has made women less happy. They're not happy in the work force, for the most part.

  

  Gavin McInnes
  • Force
  • Unhappy
  • Feminism

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