Feminsim Quotes

“Wenn mich heute jemand fragt, ab wann ich mich als Feministin bezeichnet habe, kann ich das nicht genau sagen, aber irgendwann bekam ich den Verdacht, dass die Gleichberechtigung sich doch nicht von allein ergibt, wenn alle so weitermachen wie bisher, mich eingeschlossen. Dass es nicht reicht, individuelle Freiheiten trotz Ungerechtigkeit zu erlangen, sondern dass die Gründe für die Ungerechtigkeit wegmüssen.”
― Margarete Stokowski, Untenrum frei

“I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.”
― Robert Jensen

“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of her husband and we cannot, in our hearts, asssent to that. It is not only the leaving but the way the play does not have time for suffering, changes of heart. Ibsen has been too much a man in the end. He has taken the man's practice, if not his stated belief, that where self-realization is concerned children shall not be an impediment.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“The diversity of voices, issues, approaches, and processes required to make feminism work as an inclusive social movement is precisely the kind of knotty, unruly insurrection that just can't be smoothed into a neat brand.”
― Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

“There is danger in speaking so generally about "liberalism," a danger that has often plagued feminist debates. "Liberalism" is not a single position but a family of positions; Kantian liberalism is profoundly different from classical Utilitarian liberalism, and both of these from the Utilitarianism currently dominant in neoclassical economics.”
― Martha C. Nussbaum

“Women and girls cannot access full humanity and the rights and opportunities of full
human status while the idea that there are personality traits and appearance norms that are naturally and essentially associated with
girls and women still has social currency and serves to control and limit their lives.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

“I don't think . . . there's much real difference between men and women. That is, there wouldn't be, if women had fair treatment.”
― George Gissing, The Odd Women

“Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap.”
― Robert Jensen

“The summer before, an estranged husband violated his wife’s restraining order against him, shooting her—and killing or wounding six other women—at her workplace in suburban Milwaukee, but since there were only four corpses the crime was largely overlooked in the media in a year with so many more spectacular mass murders in this country (and we still haven’t really talked about the fact that, of sixty-two mass shootings in the United States in three decades, only one was by a woman, because when you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns but not about men—and by the way, nearly two-thirds of all women killed by guns are killed by their partner or ex-partner).”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her”
― Sarah Stillman

“This continued blindness between us can only serve the oppressive system within which we live.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived.
In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then.
In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women’s capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

“everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do.”
― Michelle Quach, Not Here to Be Liked

“Just as it is not the penis that commits rape, and not testosterone that drives it and not overwhelming sexual desire either, castration whether surgical or chemical will not eliminate men's hatred of women.”
― Germaine Greer, On Rape

“He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement.
-Cackle by Kim Harrsion”
― Kim Harrison

“A man is merely spoiled by his vices while a woman is soiled by hers.”
― Sara Collins

“I wanted to be where I could think, and not just anyone could look at me. I wanted to sleep in a bed that was just big enough for me and my own salvation. I wanted to choose constraint and be freed by it, after constraint was all that had ever been offered to me.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy