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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. -
June Jordan
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. -
Golda Meir
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The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change. -
Margaret Mead
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The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. -
Anita Loos
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. -
Wyndham Lewis
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As a result of the feminist revolution, ''feminine'' becomes an abusive epithet. -
Wyndham Lewis
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -
Timothy Leary
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. -
Ellen Key
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. -
Germaine Greer
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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. -
Sally Kempton
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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them. -
Henry James
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ''emancipation.'' You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood. -
Henrik Ibsen
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Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose. -
J S Habgood
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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights. -
Angelina Grimke
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. -
Germaine Greer
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic. -
Germaine Greer
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. -
Germaine Greer
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Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. -
Sister Corita Kent
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Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships. -
Arianna Stassinopoulos
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