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.
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Wilma Scott Heide Quotes
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
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Madonna Ciccone Quotes
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
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Lynn Hecht Schafren Quotes
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.
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Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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.
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Marlo Thomas Quotes
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.
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Grover Cleveland Quotes
Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.
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Nancy Linn-Desmond Quotes
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
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Sally Kempton Quotes
I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped!
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Author Unknown Quotes
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
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Faith Whittlesey Quotes
I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
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Paula Cole Quotes
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Timothy Leary Quotes
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl."
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Shirley Chisholm Quotes
Most women are one man away from welfare.
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Gloria Steinem Quotes
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.
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Marya Mannes Quotes
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.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Susan B. Anthony Quotes
Give a woman a job and she grows balls.
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Jack Gelber Quotes
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."
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Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
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Roseanne Barr Quotes
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
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Estelle R. Ramey Quotes
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
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Florynce Kennedy Quotes
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Henry Kissinger Quotes
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Sexism is a social disease.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Ralph Nader Quotes
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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Andy Rooney Quotes
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
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Mary Astell Quotes
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
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Bill Copeland Quotes
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
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Cissy Farenthold Quotes
I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.
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Cindy Olsen Quotes
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
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Shana Alexander Quotes
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.
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Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
History is herstory too.
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Author Unknown Quotes
How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Erica Jong Quotes
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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Maya Angelou Quotes
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.
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Betty Friedan Quotes
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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Author Unknown Quotes
Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.
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Mercy B. Jackson Quotes
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
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Lucretia Mott Quotes
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.
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Cynthia Heimel Quotes
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.
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Will Rogers Quotes
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
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Jill Ruckelshaus Quotes
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Gloria Steinem Quotes
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Bella Abzug Quotes
Being a lady is an attitude.
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Chuck Woolery Quotes
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.
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Cynthia Heimel Quotes
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
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.
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Marya Mannes Quotes
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
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Claudette Colbert Quotes
I think, therefore I'm single.
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Lizz Winstead Quotes
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.
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Jane Howard Quotes
I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
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Clarie Sargent Quotes
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
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Alanis Morissette Quotes
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.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
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Sarah Moore Grimké Quotes
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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Anonymous Quotes
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
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.
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Anaïs Nin Quotes
To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.
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Spanish Proverb Quotes
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
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Sheila Rowbotham Quotes