Female Liberation Quotes

#1. If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

Germaine Greer

#2. something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty.

Naomi Wolf

#3. Women's liberation did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.

Germaine Greer

#4. Group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led.

Carl R. Rogers

#5. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Saddam Hussein

#6. May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
[Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Ovid

#7. I found out about Jonathan Winters' death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashian's divorce before she did.

Gilbert Gottfried

#8. When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event ... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

Randy Couture

#9. [Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Betty Friedan

#10. Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

Richard Pryor

#12. Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

Jon Stewart

#13. No day is safe from news of you.

Sylvia Plath

#14. To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. The Women's March did what it set out to do and that is to show the sheer magnitude of passion that the female voice can project and most importantly, for our future generations, it has shattered the falsity of the patriarch myth that women do not support other women.

Aysha Taryam

#16. The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.

Susan Griffin

#17. Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.

Henry Moore

#18. Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's
responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

Stephen Colbert

#19. In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

Daniel Negreanu

#20. The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

Sally Potter