Feminism Quotes

Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”

I feel like I’m one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?