Top 15 Feminist Authors Quotes

#1. Conflict isn't negative, it just is.

Thomas Crum

#2. One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain

#3. Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

Maggie Young

#4. On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Andrea Dworkin

#5. It was like somebody had sprinkled fairy dust on the whole city," said Cheryl Bertelli, one of Maud's delirious patrons.

David Talbot

#6. Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.

Maggie Young

#7. No one can tear your thread out of himself.
No one can tie you down or set you free.

Philip Larkin

#8. The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

Mark Twain

#9. Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#10. You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Maggie Young

#11. You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Amy Tan

#12. The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Maggie Young

#13. As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Sydney J. Harris

#14. It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Maggie Young

#15. If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.

Elizabeth McGovern

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