Feminism Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Cynthia Heimel,
Erica Jong,
Gloria Steinem
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| The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. |
| - Bella Abzug |
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| When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. |
| - Shana Alexander |
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| How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! |
| - Maya Angelou |
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| It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. |
| - Susan B. Anthony |
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| Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. |
| - Susan B. Anthony |
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| Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement. |
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| History is herstory too. |
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| How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete? |
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| I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! |
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| I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy. |
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| It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink. |
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| Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. |
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| Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. |
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| Sexism is a social disease. |
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| Sometimes the best man for the job isn't. |
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| Why do inclusive persons want to call God the Father "He/She" but seem perfectly content with calling the devil a "he?" |
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| Women belong in the house... and the Senate. |
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| Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. |
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| Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. |
| - Joan Baez |
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| The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. |
| - Roseanne Barr |
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| These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, non-sexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod. |
| - Lynda Barry |
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| There is more difference within the sexes than between them. |
| - Ivy Compton-Burnett |
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| Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. |
| - Joseph Conrad |
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| Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing. |
| - Bill Copeland |
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| Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. |
| - Isadora Duncan |
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| I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. |
| - Cissy Farenthold |
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| Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. |
| - Betty Friedan |
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| The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. |
| - Betty Friedan |
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| I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. |
| - Sarah Moore Grimké |
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| One of the chief obstacles in the way of woman's elevation to the same platform of human rights, and moral dignity, and intellectual improvement, with her brother, on which God placed her... is her love of dress. |
| - Sarah Moore Grimké |
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| I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. |
| - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
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| During the feminist revolution, the battle lines were again simple. It was easy to tell the enemy, he was the one with the penis. This is no longer strictly true. Some men are okay now. We're allowed to like them again. We still have to keep them in line, of course, but we no longer have to shoot them on sight. |
| - Cynthia Heimel |
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| One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney. |
| - Cynthia Heimel |
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| We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck. |
| - Cynthia Heimel |
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| Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused - as remarkable you might say - as most women. |
| - Jane Howard |
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| And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. |
| - Henry Kissinger |
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| Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. |
| - Timothy Leary |
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| Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." |
| - Clare Booth Luce |
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| Men love putting women on a pedestal because it's so much more satisfying when they knock them off. They fall farther. |
| - Clare Booth Luce |
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| Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. |
| - Marya Mannes |
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| Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. |
| - Marya Mannes |
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| It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. |
| - Margaret Mead |
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| Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. |
| - Golda Meir |
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| Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. |
| - Robin Morgan |
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| The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. |
| - Maureen Murphy |
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| Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. |
| - Ralph Nader |
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| I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. |
| - Jewish Proverb |
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| To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is. |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| Most women are one man away from welfare. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. |
| - Marlo Thomas |
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| One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. |
| - Marlo Thomas |
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| To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. |
| - Lily Tomlin |
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| The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. |
| - Lemuel K. Washburn |
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| Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. |
| - Fay Weldon |
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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 |
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| My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. |
| - James McNeill Whistler |
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| I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. |
| - Mary Wollstonecraft |
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| Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. |
| - Mary Wollstonecraft |
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| All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. |
| - Virginia Woolf |
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| Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. |
| - Lois Wyse |
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