I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of powerdomination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.
I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.
Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
The future of rock belongs to women.
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [. . . ] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind of a strategic thing on my part, because I think that it's the hardest definition to argue with. You know, who doesn't want that? Everyone wants equality for women.
Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.
How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism. '
. . . feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.
Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.
Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.