Quotes on feminism
The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor.
Heide, Wilma Scott
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
Ciccone, Madonna
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Schafren, Lynn Hecht
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.
Anthony, Susan B.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Cleveland, Grover
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
Kempton, Sally
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.
Mannes, Marya
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Anthony, Susan B.
Give a woman a job and she grows balls.
Gelber, Jack
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Kennedy, Florynce
Sexism is a social disease.
Unknown, Author
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.
Nader, Ralph
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
Rooney, Andy
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Astell, Mary
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Alexander, Shana
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.
Janeway, Elizabeth
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Angelou, Maya
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.
Friedan, Betty
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.
Unknown, Author
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.
Heimel, Cynthia
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.
Rogers, Will
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Abzug, Bella
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.
Heimel, Cynthia
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.
Mannes, Marya
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Colbert, Claudette
I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
Grimké, Sarah Moore
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
Anonymous
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.
McLaughlin, Mignon
To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.
Proverb, Spanish