My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
Ani Difranco
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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.”
Clare Boothe Luce
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
G. B. Trudeau
Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I’m as good as any man? Yes.
Yasmine Bleeth
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.
Aaron Allston
I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.
Clarie Sargent
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men’s.
Phyllis Schlafly
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.
Susie Bright
Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
Susan Faludi
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
Bella Abzug
Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
Reynolds Price
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.”
Shirley Chisholm
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I’m a girl, I don’t have to get married.
Marlo Thomas
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
Madonna Ciccone
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Rush Limbaugh
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
Clifford Geertz
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they’re reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
Neil LaBute
History is herstory too.
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women’s intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
Valentine de Saint-Point
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
Andrea Dworkin
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.
George Gilder
I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped!
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It’s the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
Kenny Loggins
It’s tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
Siobhan Fahey