Feminism Quotes

Forget the myths you have heard about radical feminism, for only some of them are true. Instead, prepare to think about why so many lies are told about this particular brand of feminism, how it acts as a scapegoat for all that is most threatening about our social movement and how any revolutionary movement for change could really ever be anything but threatening. These are the women you were warned about; you can be too.

~ Finn Mackay

Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.

~ Rachael Allen

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects,gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?

~ Marge Piercy

Did my mother hum to me when I was little? Did she touch me, hold me, fill me with her noise and her thoughts? This loneliness I feel is of the womb, born by women. I was sixteen when they all died and I thought I understood this loss, but it comes to me that I didn't know what women gave to the world. It wasn't about their lips, their eyes or the gentle quality of their voices. It was about the way that all men are a part of them. And now we are part of nothing.

~ Aliya Whiteley

Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.

~ Robin Morgan

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

~ Philippa Gregory

By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.

~ Jessica Valenti

A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.

~ Khaled Hosseini

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

~ Ruth Park

David Cameron is a C-3P0 made of ham.

~ Caitlin Moran

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

~ Bell Hooks

Not being bothered to exercise your right to vote is a privilege that many women still don't have. Dismissing politicians as all the same is a luxury. Our votes may not seem very important to us, but our lives without them would be immeasurably worse. For we needed universal suffrage to be firmly and unarguably in place before we could demand equal rights. And while it may be tempting for people to mutter that feminism is old-fashioned, boring and a fight already won, we have have to look at the statistics to see that what is true for women is a very long way short of being true for us all.

~ Natalie Haynes

Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew Sistehood is powerful.

~ Bell Hooks

When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.

~ Caitlin Moran

The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby.

~ Caitlin Moran

Strip clubs let everyone down. Men and women approach their very worst here.

~ Caitlin Moran

There's no self-expression or joy in these joints-- no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.

~ Caitlin Moran

In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more valid than the other. They both know me. They are both equally capable of deciding what is right.

~ Caitlin Moran

We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes.

~ Caitlin Moran

Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.

~ Caitlin Moran

Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country.

~ Caitlin Moran

The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.

~ Caitlin Moran

Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse.

~ Caitlin Moran

Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal.

~ Caitlin Moran

Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses provocatively.

~ Caitlin Moran

Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard.

~ Finn Mackay

For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.

~ Caitlin Moran

Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.

~ Caitlin Moran

But why does it matter what we call it, as long as there is concerted action to respond to and prevent such crimes? It matters because if we really want to fix something that is broken, if we want to heal these fractures in our society, then we need to understand their causes. If we do not, then we will forever continue to place giant sticking plasters over the wounds left by this violence, trying to bandage over losses that can never be replaced. As long as this violence continues, it is obviously the case that we do have to address the symptoms, but my argument is that we must also address the causes if we want a long-term reduction or even, perhaps, the eventual eradication of male violence against women.

~ Finn Mackay

Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.

~ Caitlin Moran

These hormones do not make me feel feminine: every night, I lie in bed feeling wrenched, and the bulge of my sanitary napkin in my kickers looks like a cock.

~ Caitlin Moran

But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.

~ Caitlin Moran

Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.

~ Caitlin Moran

If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet doesn't really need all of us to produce more babies.

~ Caitlin Moran

First world babies are eating this planet like termites.

~ Caitlin Moran

In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.

~ Caitlin Moran

Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.

~ Caitlin Moran

The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.

~ Caitlin Moran

Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.

~ Caitlin Moran

But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.

~ Caitlin Moran