“In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.”

Since politics – until recently – has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.

I’ve taken it from feminist friends, and I’ve taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that’s exactly where we want to be.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

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

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.