Feminism Quotes

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Sarah J. Hale: “A better time is coming. Women, capable of using their facilities for the improvement of society, will not much longer remain in the castle of indolence. Would that those of my sex who are urging, onward, into the industrial pursuits, and other professions appropriate to men, might turn their attention to improvements in domestic economy. Here is an open field, where their heads and hearts as well as hands may find ample scope and noble objects.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Can man be free if woman be a slave?”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power. ”

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Shirley Chisholm: “In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing -- anti-humanism.”

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Robert Burns: “While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. ”

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Susan Faludi: “Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.”

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Wilma Mankiller: “I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.”

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Susan Faludi: “My goal is to be accused of being strident.
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Carrie Chapman Catt: “In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”

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Jane Galvin Lewis: “You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.”

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Lillian Hellman: “No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.”

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Gloria Steinem: “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”

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Marlo Thomas: “One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”

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Bella Abzug: “Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”

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Pamela Anderson: “What I know in life runs the gamut of the 'feminist experience.' The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.”

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Ellen Goodman: “People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. ”

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Julia Ward Howe: “I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.” more

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Marilyn Monroe: “I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. ”

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Mary Wollstonecraft: “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.”

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Rita Mae Brown: “Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.”

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Michele Le Doeuff: “A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.”

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Abigail Adams: “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.”

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Gloria Steinem: “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.”

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Pearl S. Buck: “The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.”

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Nancy Astor: “No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.”

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Lya Sorano: “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.”

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Susan B. Anthony: “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.”

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Margaret Atwood: “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.”