Feminism Quotes - Page 2

• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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• Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

  Gloria Steinem

  Two, Choices, Feminist

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

  Corita Kent

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, He Man

  1974 In the Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul.

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  The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sad

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• My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

  Mother Jones

  Women, Fighting, Shoes

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• I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Impact, Feminist

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• We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspiring, Responsibility, Legacy

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• I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

  Anais Nin

  Hate, Heart, Independent

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• If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Expectations, Classic, Being A Woman

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• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Caring

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  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Memorable, Equality

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Sex, Writing

  Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870

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• And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminist, Firsts

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Responsibility, Purpose

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• Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

  Gloria Steinem

  Simple, Views, World

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  I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Witty, Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

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• I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Age, Fading

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• 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.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Diversity, Enemy

  "The Christian Science Monitor", April 1, 1974.

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• I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Desire, Classic, Being A Woman

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• Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teaching, Men, Trying

  "Read Nirvana’s First NME Cover Feature From 1991", www.nme.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Men, Sight

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Kings, Mean

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 197), 1998.

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  How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, People, Humans

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• Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

  Camille Paglia

  Vegetables, Feminist, Neurosis

  1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. CollectedinVamps andTramps (1994).

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