Feminism quotations

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◆ A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

- Gloria Steinem99

◆ I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

- Martha Gellhorn99

◆ He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

- George Carlin99

◆ Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ 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 West99

◆ As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

- Jane Austen99

◆ One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

- Gloria Steinem99

◆ One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

- Jeanne d'Arc99

◆ It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

- Betty Friedan99