FEMINISM QUOTES II

quotations about feminism

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Modern feminists don't see that feminism is directly opposed to what most of them already enjoy or are seeking--loving spouses, healthy children, and happy homes.

MOLLY MCCANN

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

CHARLOTTE BUNCH

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Feminism, in my opinion, transcends, and is a common cause of equality for all genders, races and sexualities. It is a stepping stone to shed light on the prejudices, discriminatory practices and injustices ingrained in our society to level the playing field and afford equal opportunities and rights to everyone.

EDWARD BENNER

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Feminism supposed that men had secured power for themselves by claiming the authority to decree meaning. History, anthropology, sociology, psychology, religion, medicine, art, culture -- all of life's meaning was arbitrarily defined by men. Therefore, as the philosophy of feminism spread, it challenged society to make women's experiences a reference point for determining life's meaning.

MARY A. KASSIAN

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FEMINISM is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a "bitch" or a "dyke"; it means you believe in equality.

KATE NASH

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The first principle of full feminism is the simple equality of men and women. And it is an erroneous principle. For here nature steps in and forbids its achievement.

CORREA MOYLAN WALSH

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Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

RHETA CHILDE DORR

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Feminism is one of the most popular modern philosophies that none of its proponents can properly explain.

MOLLY MCCANN

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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

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It’s babe feminism -- we’re young, we’re fun, we do what we want in bed -- and it has a shorter shelf life than the feminism of sisterhood. I’ve been a babe, and I’ve been a sister. Sister lasts longer.

ANNA QUINDLEN

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The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about 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

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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

CAMILLE PAGLIA

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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

FLORENCE KING

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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

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Let's keep telling the world over and over again that yes, women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, once and for all.

HILLARY CLINTON

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I don't think that men have been comfortable with feminist progress. They're used to growing up in a society where women have a role to play and so do the men. Some enlightened men have welcomed and encouraged and supported it. But I'm not so sure if you look deeply even into them that it hasn't been a little bit of an effort to accept women in roles that they're completely entitled to. If you asked most men in the privacy of their own home they might say: I liked it better when a woman got married and took care of the kids and I went out to work and the equation was clearly defined. Women should be free to have anything and everything they want in terms of all of those rights. It should be a given, not be a privilege. But it is undoing a more primitive situation.... I think if you look 100 years from now, the situation will be much more graceful.

WOODY ALLEN

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The bra-burning-angry-lesbian-who-wants-to-behead-men stereotype shockingly still defines many people's perceptions of feminism.

EDWARD BENNER

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Until women learn to want economic independence ... and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

CRYSTAL EASTMAN

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Feminism is a program for making different beings -- men and women -- turn out alike, and ... it must do a good deal of chopping to fit the real world into its ideal.

MICHAEL LEVIN

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I've been working in this area of empowerment to girls and women for many years now, and at times it has looked overwhelming. But I watched it grow. I watched the word feminism, for example, that many, many people felt uncomfortable with. They wouldn't describe themselves as feminists. The young generation of girls coming up, they have no issues with calling their attitudes and their values, "feminist." None whatsoever. I'm really encouraged by that.

ANNIE LENNOX

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