FEMINISM QUOTES II
quotations about feminism
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.
CHARLOTTE BUNCH
"Understanding Feminist Theory", New Directions for Women
Modern feminists don't see that feminism is directly opposed to what most of them already enjoy or are seeking--loving spouses, healthy children, and happy homes.
MOLLY MCCANN
Human Events, "Feminism: False Advertising at its Finest", May 23, 2019
Feminism, in my opinion, transcends, and is a common cause of equality for all genders, races and sexualities. It is a stepping stone to shed light on the prejudices, discriminatory practices and injustices ingrained in our society to level the playing field and afford equal opportunities and rights to everyone.
EDWARD BENNER
"Feminism is for men, too", University of Delaware Review, April 29, 2019
Feminism supposed that men had secured power for themselves by claiming the authority to decree meaning. History, anthropology, sociology, psychology, religion, medicine, art, culture -- all of life's meaning was arbitrarily defined by men. Therefore, as the philosophy of feminism spread, it challenged society to make women's experiences a reference point for determining life's meaning.
MARY A. KASSIAN
Feminist Mistake
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
Right-Wing Women
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
PAT ROBERTSON
fundraising letter, 1992
The first principle of full feminism is the simple equality of men and women. And it is an erroneous principle. For here nature steps in and forbids its achievement.
CORREA MOYLAN WALSH
Feminism
Feminism is one of the most popular modern philosophies that none of its proponents can properly explain.
MOLLY MCCANN
"Feminism: False Advertising at its Finest", Human Events, May 23, 2019
FEMINISM is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a "bitch" or a "dyke"; it means you believe in equality.
KATE NASH
blog post, 2011
It’s babe feminism -- we’re young, we’re fun, we do what we want in bed -- and it has a shorter shelf life than the feminism of sisterhood. I’ve been a babe, and I’ve been a sister. Sister lasts longer.
ANNA QUINDLEN
New York Times, January 19, 1994
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
FLORENCE KING
"Spinsterhood Is Powerful", Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye
I don't think that men have been comfortable with feminist progress. They're used to growing up in a society where women have a role to play and so do the men. Some enlightened men have welcomed and encouraged and supported it. But I'm not so sure if you look deeply even into them that it hasn't been a little bit of an effort to accept women in roles that they're completely entitled to. If you asked most men in the privacy of their own home they might say: I liked it better when a woman got married and took care of the kids and I went out to work and the equation was clearly defined. Women should be free to have anything and everything they want in terms of all of those rights. It should be a given, not be a privilege. But it is undoing a more primitive situation.... I think if you look 100 years from now, the situation will be much more graceful.
WOODY ALLEN
The Guardian, September 26, 2013
Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.
RHETA CHILDE DORR
A Woman of Fifty
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Vamps and Tramps
When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Vamps and Tramps
The bra-burning-angry-lesbian-who-wants-to-behead-men stereotype shockingly still defines many people's perceptions of feminism.
EDWARD BENNER
"Feminism is for men, too", University of Delaware Review, April 29, 2019
Until women learn to want economic independence ... and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN
The Birth Control Review
Let's keep telling the world over and over again that yes, women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, once and for all.
HILLARY CLINTON
Women in the World Conference
I've been working in this area of empowerment to girls and women for many years now, and at times it has looked overwhelming. But I watched it grow. I watched the word feminism, for example, that many, many people felt uncomfortable with. They wouldn't describe themselves as feminists. The young generation of girls coming up, they have no issues with calling their attitudes and their values, "feminist." None whatsoever. I'm really encouraged by that.
ANNIE LENNOX
"Annie Lennox Talks #MeToo Movement and Why 'Global Feminism' Is for Everyone Ahead of CAMFED Honor", People, May 3, 2019
Feminism is a program for making different beings -- men and women -- turn out alike, and ... it must do a good deal of chopping to fit the real world into its ideal.
MICHAEL LEVIN
Feminism and Freedom