412 quotes found
“You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your priv...”
“There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.”
“There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.”
“Significantly, in future feminist movement we will spend less time critiquing patriarchal marriage bonds and expend more effort showing alternatives, showing the value of peer relationships which a...”
“In my own opinion (key word), the foundation of feminism is this: being able to choose. The core of anti-feminism is, conversely, telling a woman she can't do something solely because she's a woman...”
“Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?”
“Its amazing to me that its still considered a notable, commendable trait Oh, shes a well-known feminist in a woman, or a girl, or a man, or a boy. That that is the unusual thing. Really, it should ...”
“This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.”
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
“The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind”
“Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, ser...”
“All men are real men, whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu.”
“The start of empowering women comes with acknowledgment of thought that every born child is equal irrespective of its sex.”
“A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her. She may be sitting here amongst us.”
“Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, ...”
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any on...”
“I hope Im being clear, I didnt say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. Im talking about the word.I have the privilege living my life inside of words and part of being a w...”
“But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.”
“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal subordination of one sex to the other -- is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances ...”
“Mens greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and womens greatest strength is their facade of weakness.”
