Feminist Books Quotes

#1. My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.

Leila Janah

#2. I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.

Wilbur Smith

#3. You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

Cupideros

#4. Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Jacob M. Appel

#5. I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn't distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what problem would we have with two men loving each other?

Abigail Tarttelin

#6. There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

Brian Tracy

#7. A Dom never takes away. He only builds.

Delaine Moore

#8. Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.

Maggie Young

#9. Sometimes you must give up on certain people, but it should be mandatory that you will never ever give up on yourself.

Ben Tolosa

#10. The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me,

Carrie Brownstein

#11. Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?

M.J. Mandoki

#12. Either the future is subject to chance
in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other
or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
Quintus Tullius Cicero

Anthony Everitt

#13. I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

Fay Weldon

#14. Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

Ruth Ozeki

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

Maggie Young

#16. Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#17. I was planning to sort my comic books based on level of second wave feminist influence." "As opposed to first wave?" "Yes, well, Susan B. Anthony laid the foundation for those who have come after. It's all really interrelated but she didn't have direct influence over late twentieth century comics.

Penny Reid

#18. The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

#19. I hate those movies, those books, where some guy gets to go off and have adventures and meanwhile the girl has to stay home and wait. I'm a feminist. I subscribe to Bust magazine, and I watch Buffy reruns. I don't believe in that kind of shit.

Kelly Link

#20. If what they kept and clung to seemed strange, part of me sympathized: it was all they had left of their home. Just because they knew it was gone didn't mean they knew how to let it go.

Ransom Riggs

#21. You will hurt your foot.

Joseph Heller

#22. I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

Jessica Valenti