feminism

1.

If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist.

- Thomas, David

2.

I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines.

- Kocher, Gerhard

3.

[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

4.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

- Rich, Adrienne

5.

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

- Peter, Laurence J.

6.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

- Bunch, Charlotte

7.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

- Grimke, Angelina

8.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

- Kent, Sister Corita

9.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

- Lewis, Wyndham

10.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

- Jordan, June

11.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress.

- Deutsch, Helene

12.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

- Johns, Adela Rogers St.

13.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

- Goldman, Emma

14.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

- Key, Ellen

15.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.

- Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

- Bardot, Brigitte

18.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

- Anna Quindlen

19.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

- Saint-Point, Valentine De

20.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

- Ibsen, Henrik