I myself have never been able to find out precisely what
feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist
whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from
a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West
A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think
in her place. Michele Le Doeuff
No one sex
can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why
civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had
one-sided government. Nancy Astor
Any woman
whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a
feminist.
Rita Mae
Brown
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
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of
females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl."
Shirley Chisholm
The thing
women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You
just take it. Roseanne Barr
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of
homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
Francis Maude
I, with a
deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my
courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve
or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a
woman. Anaïs Nin
You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. Jane
Galvin Lewis
There are
very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina.
All other jobs should be open to everybody. Florynce
Kennedy
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
We've
begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have
the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem
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