Showing posts with label Feminism Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feminism Quotes. Show all posts

[Feminism is] a socialist, ant...

[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
~Pat Robertson~

Young wives are the leading as...

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~

You know, when I first went in...

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather.  Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.  If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother.  That's the way it is in Hollywood.  The men get younger and the women get older.
~Lillian Gish~

You don't have to be anti-man ...

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.
~Jane Galvin Lewis~

Women's chains have been forge...

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
~Estelle R. Ramey~

Women have been taught that, f...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.
~Author Unknown~

Women belong in the house... a...

Women belong in the house... and the Senate.
~Author Unknown~

Women are the only oppressed g...

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
~Evelyn Cunningham~

Women are the only exploited g...

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
~Erica Jong~

Women are not the weak, frail ...

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~

Women are not inherently passi...

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.  We're not inherently anything but human.
~Robin Morgan~

Women are all female impersona...

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
~Susan Brownmiller~

Why is it that only girls stan...

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet?  As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
~Barbara Kingsolver, ~

Why is it that men can be bast...

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
~Lynn Hecht Schafren~

When two people marry they bec...

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
~Shana Alexander, State-by-State Guide to Women's Legal Rights, 1975~

When I see the elaborate study...

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
~Julia Ward Howe~

When a woman behaves like a ma...

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
~Edith Evans~

We've begun to raise daughters...

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~Gloria Steinem~

We haven't come a long way, we...

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way.  If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
~Elizabeth Janeway~

We have to have faith in ourse...

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~