F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings”
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
“Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.”
Source: Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.”
“Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.”
“Feminism is unique as a political movement in that it sees itself both as the subject of change and the agency of change.”
Source: Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation
“Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.”
“Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.”
“Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.”
“Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.”
“Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.”
“Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.”
“Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want, for your own reasons, without being forced or pressured into wearing what's considered societally required because of your sex.”
“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.”
Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
“Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.”
“Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.”
“Feminism means standing up for women's rights, not reinforcing the society's perception of women as objects for sexual gratification, by advocating for public eroticism.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.”
“Feminism means to me aquality, actually. Women having equal rights to every thing the male population have in all aspects. Whether that's socially, or within the household or in the workplace. I don't find it a difficult word but it does have a lot of baggage. There's still a lot of work to be done in various parts of the world and society. If you look at where a woman's place was a couple of generations ago, there's been a huge development and progression. And it's an important queston to keep bringing up.”
“Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.”
“Feminism now means you don't always do the dishes, or that you look down your nose at women's magazines, rather than meaning you fight capitalist systems that enable continued attacks on the poorest and most vulnerable.”
Source: Lean Out
“Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.”
“Feminism? Oh, it's totally unnecessary today. Just like seat belts and life jackets.”
“Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.”
“Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.”
“Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power”
“Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.”
“Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.”
Source: Sex & Sensibility
“Feminism should be less concerned with individual choices than the conditions in which they were made”
“Feminism sounds great when advocated by men.”
“Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.”
“Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism.”
Source: Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
“Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.”
“Feminism was a dirty word for a while.”
“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
“Feminism was not a gimmicky bandwagon that she jumped onto the short-cut road to fame.”
Source: Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories
“Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...”
“Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.”
Source: The Art of Being Ruled
“Feminism was revealed as nothing feminine at all, just another form of control, bias, and even sexism against traditional women.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.”
“Feminism without femininity is a sham.”
“Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.”
“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”
“Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.”
Source: Bad Feminist: Essays