Best feminism & women-equality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.”

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Author:Polly Toynbee

“Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.”

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Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

“I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“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.”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'”

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”

“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

“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.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”

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Book:The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880

Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880

“If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?”

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Author:Toshiko Kishida

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'”

“IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.”

“The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue”

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

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Author:Socrates

“Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.”

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Author:Qiu Jin

“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”

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