Feminism Quotes

• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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• I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Husband, Children, Women

  "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

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• Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.118, Routledge

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  Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Relationship, Women, Laughing

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Two, Feminist

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• Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

  Adrienne Rich

  Strong Women, Hard Work, Mean

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• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminist, Dumb Things, Unattractive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Anais Nin

  Hate, Heart, Independent

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

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• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

  Attributed

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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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• 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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• Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Revolution

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

  Valentine de Saint-Point

  Valentines Day, Mistake, Political

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• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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  There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

  Madeleine Albright

  Strong Women, Business, Independent Women

  "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

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• Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

  Gina Torres

  Way, Trade, One Thing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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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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