Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Rendell

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Vivienne Westwood

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

Warren Farrell

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

Lynn Coady

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Nawal El Saadawi

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Mel Gibson

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Phyllis Schlafly

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.

Teresa de Lauretis

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

Sandra Bernhard

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Vladimir Lenin

Destroy the family and you destroy society

Robin Morgan

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Germaine Greer

After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever before.

Mary Harron

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

Andrea Dworkin

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

Clare Boothe Luce

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Anita Sarkeesian

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

Susan Faludi

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.