From the article: Feminist Quotes
Share your favorite quote by a woman on feminism. Please include the quote itself and the name of the person who said it. I'll check quotes to verify that they are from the named individual, and I reserve the right to accept or reject quotes based on my assessment of their accuracy, verifiability, relevance to feminist history, and appropriate and civil language and tone. I give preference to (verifiable) quotes by well-known women not already represented in the collection, and will include more pro-feminist than anti-feminist quotes because the topic is feminism not anti-feminism. Share Your Favorite
Sarah M. Grimke
- I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask of my brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.—Sarah M. Grimke 1838
- —Guest Joan Schwartz Michel
Bella Abzug
- We don’t so much want to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman shlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male shlemiel.—Bella Abzug, 1977
- —Guest Joan Schwartz Michel
Hazel Hunkins Hallinan
- Men have always got so many “good reasons” Men have always got "good reasons" for keeping their privileges. If we had left it to the men, toilets would have been the greatest obstacle to human progress. Toilets were always the reason women couldn’t become engineers, or pilots, or even members of Congress. They didn’t have women’s toilets. -- Hazel Hunkins Hallinan, 1983
- —Guest Joan Michel
True help means action
- Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. - Andrea Dworkin
- —Deniece.Ramirez
Gloria, again...
- "The Truth will make you free. But first, it will really piss you off!" --Gloria Steinem
- —kallisonanderson
Equality
- "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." -Timothy Leary
- —Guest Laurel
Mary Wollstonecraft
- "Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
- —Guest Firelilly
Let's Change the World LLC
- "At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry." Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) Founder of Ms. Magazine
- —Guest Yale Hirsch
A Woman's Place
- A Woman's Place is in the House...and in the Senate. (author unknown)
- —Guest Becky Briley
Justice
- Barbara Strickland: "What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply." - Barbara Strickland
- —Guest Karen
Bertha Honore Palmer
- "Keep up with the procession is my motto, and head it if you can. I do head it, and I feel that I'm where I belong." Mrs. Potter Palmer had a degree of self confidence unusual in a Victorian woman. Her many accomplishments proved that she was leading American women into the 20th century.
- —MiraLago
A conservative view
- "What's the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? Lipstick." - Sarah Palin
- —Guest wConcerened reader
Feminism quotes by Jeri Marie Hallberg
- In finding your website, I had to stop and think for a few moments to ask myself, " what is feminism mind thought? Being raised in a patriarchal family of origin, a premium was placed on being male. As the mother of a beautiful 20 year old young woman and a precious 9 year old boy, I must be very careful in both of their continual perceptions of self, identity, smeness and differences. I feel as though I am constantly on guard from the ever present and oft times mind boggling and unrelenting influences projected by the media. So if necessited to produce and or present one quote regarding the topic of feminism, that quote, my this person is "Trust myself."
- —jerimariehallberg
Ani Difranco
- "Feminism ain't about equality, it's about reprieve."
- —nototouchthearth
Eleanor Roosevelt on the rights of women
- "The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it." Eleanor Roosevelt
- —BillAAHR
