“As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.” GivingLastsFatherNamesWhiteIssuesGrewHusbandGrew UpDressesFeministPlentyVowBridesIdentifying Author:Jessica Valenti
“women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.” MenHardUsedFoundHe ManPoliticianHusbandDiedFeministUsed To BeWidows Author:Gloria Steinem
“Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.” IfsAgeStrongCenturyFashionMovementHorrorHusbandIndependentFilledFeministQueensMourningPerpetualWomanhoodShockedOutrageNineteenth CenturyHeroinesMonarchsVictoriaPersonificationFeminist MovementHeyday Author:Eva Figes
“I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.” IfsMenTryingMadeHardShowsWould BeIndividualHusbandMen And WomenRelationFeministOppressionOne ManVillainHook Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.” IfsWorldAgeFeminismDyingHusbandCookingBusyFeministTeaToiletsToo BusyChildbirthYour Husband Author:Caitlin Moran
“Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement.” ChildrenSaidBookWantedMovementHusbandFeministStatementsBunchFantasticFeminist Movement Author:John Shelby Spong
“Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.” YearsPersonsHusbandFeministMy HusbandPermissionHobbiesHomemaker Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.” PeopleIfsMenWantLooksDifferentRememberPayTalkingSupportHusbandEqualExpectationsTrainFeministCommentStereotypeLooking GoodEqual PayTrain Of Thought Author:Gloria Steinem
“I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking ourselves, how do we feel about the fact that our boyfriends, our husbands, our male partners might hire sex workers? They should have that conversation, but they shouldn't attach it to policy conversations that affect people.” PeopleThinkingDifferentFeelingsPoliticalPolicyHusbandFeminist Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” ChildrenPoliticalWomenPracticeFeminismStupidMovementHusbandCapitalismConservativeFeministWomens RightsSocialistWitchcraftFundamentalistAtheisticDumb LiberalWomen RightsPolitical MovementsChristian RightFeminist MovementAgainst ReligionWomen RightStupid RepublicanWoman LeaderAnti FeministDumb ThingsStupid ConservativeMan HatingSocialist PartyChristian LeadersConservative Political Author:Pat Robertson
“I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.” NamesCausesPayRightsHusbandEqualMarriedFeministAbortionMy HusbandPrisonerSupporterHonoredEqual PayAdamantAbortion Rights Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.” KnowsMenWould BeUsedMotherFatherInterestingBehindsKnow HowWifeGreatnessHusbandEmpowermentStandingFeministGreat MenWomen EmpowermentStereotypeEmpowered WomenGreat WomenGreat FatherGreat MotherGreat Wife Book:Gaudy Night Source: Gaudy Night
“She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.” KnowsWellsFoundHonestMetsBedHusbandFeministTeaMilkDivorcedJaneMilkman Author:Willy Russell
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” WarFatherLosesSonHusbandVictimFeministPrimariesCombatVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton