Feminism Quotes
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“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Quote by -Alice Walker
“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine", so we suppress it-until it overflows.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Perhaps that's the first Survival Lesson we need to remember if we are to keep going: serious opposition is a measure of success. Women have been trained to measure our effectiveness in love and approval, not in conflict and resistance.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.”
Quote by -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 . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Swiftboating enters the English language as a verb that means attacking strength instead of weakness. In feminist and other social justice contexts, this has long been called trashing, attacking leaders for daring to write, speak, or lead at all. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. p.189”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense—and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don’t have to put on an act. If I’m not feminine enough for someone, I don’t care, because femininity is different in everyone’s mind.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman—perhaps especially a traveling feminist—becomes a kind of celestial bartender.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
Quote by -Catherine Zeta-Jones
"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Quote by -Sarah McLachlan
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
Quote by -Zoe Kravitz