Inspirational Quotes
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Feminism Quotes
EmpowermentEqualityFeminismJusticeLegal Progress I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.
EqualityFeminismGender RolesJusticeRecognition Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
FeminismHumorProtest I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
CitizenshipEqualityFeminismProgressSocial Change I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
FeminismFreedomHistorical ReflectionPerceptionSociety People feel much more comfortable with the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' version of women's liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler if the suffragettes hadn't wanted the vote and just really enjoyed chaining themselves to railings.
FeminismGender EqualityHuman RightsSocial ProgressSociety Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
EmpowermentEqualityFeminismRelationshipsRespect People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.
FeminismGender EqualityGender RolesSocial DynamicsSociety I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world.
FeminismGender EqualityHistoryProgressSocial Change Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
FeminismFilm IndustryGender EqualityGender RepresentationMedia Critique Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
EmpowermentFeminismGender EqualityPerceptionSociety I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
FeminismGender InequalityReligionSocial BondageSuperstition The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
EmpowermentFeminismResilienceStrength Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
EmpowermentEqualityFeminismMoralityResistance If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
AuthenticityFeminismHonestyIndividualitySelf-awareness If I feel something, it's how I feel. I never say, 'I feel this way, so you should feel that way.' Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I just am who I am. But, yeah. I think you would call me a feminist.
DisenfranchisementFeminismGender EqualityInjusticePride Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
FeminismGender DiscriminationInstitutional CriticismReligious CritiqueSocial Justice The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
FeminismGender EqualityOppressionSocial JusticeWomen S Rights The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.