Feminism proverbs

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◆ When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

- Bette Davis99

◆ I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

- Madonna99

◆ I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen99

◆ A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

- Gloria Steinem99

◆ 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.

- Rebecca West99

◆ Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

- Cheris Kramarae99

◆ I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

- Ana?s Nin99

◆ The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

- Roseanne Barr99

◆ No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

- Betty Friedan99

◆ Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

- George Carlin99

◆ Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

- Doris Lessing99

◆ I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues

- Charlotte Bunch98

◆ The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

- Rene Veaux98

◆ We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth

- Sigmund Freud98