Feminism Quotes

“This woman's place is in the House—the House of Representatives.”

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

“Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.”

“The emancipation of women appears to be having a profound impact on the nature and extent of female crime.”

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework.”

“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

“The world doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care.”

“Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.”

“The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.”

“I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to the women that are supporting the men.”

“The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”

“The vamp is a woman who is not a slave of every man, and that is what is the matter with her.”

“We are coming down from our pedestals and up from the laundry room.”

“Birth control is an elementary essential in all aspects of feminism.”

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

“Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.”

“The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.”

“Foxy Brown is a landmark character because she's the first black female action hero.”

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”

“It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”