Feminism Quotations
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
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people
call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a
prostitute. – Rebecca West, 1913
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes
women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up. – Margaret Atwood
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible
differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior
groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a
society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really
talking about humanism. – Gloria Steinem
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its
women. – Pearl S. Buck
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly
to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary
Wollstonecraft
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high
heels. – Faith Whittlesey
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so
lamentably is that it has had one-sided government. – Nancy Astor
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. – Betty Friedan, The
Feminine Mystique, 1963
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as
some of the men who are already there. – Maureen Reagan
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist. – Rita Mae
Brown
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the
expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about
and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who
makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now. – Anna Quindlen
When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch
up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't
know about you, but I can't wait that long. – Lya Sorano