Feminist Critique Quotes

#1. I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

Patti Smith

#2. The rosary is spiritual medicine.

Pope Francis

#3. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

Isaac Asimov

#4. Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.

Roxane Gay

#5. Hey, Axi. What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?" I knew this joke - it was one of Robinson's standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, "I don't know. What?" "A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you and kill you, too.

James Patterson

#6. A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;
a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#8. A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.

Jack Donovan

#10. The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H.L. Mencken

#11. There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Tahir Shah

#12. The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination.

Nancy Hartsock

#13. Feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

Bell Hooks

#14. My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.

Adena Halpern

#15. Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.

Frank Sonnenberg

#16. I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Charles De Gaulle

#17. Look, man, I don't know what you're talking about. They put me in here last night, I slept in that bed" - he pointed to the one with the rumpled sheet and blanket - "and I woke up about five minutes ago and took a pee.

James Dashner

#18. The face is the soul of the body.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. I do what I do because I'm broken, too.

Bryan Stevenson

#20. Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#21. If you're not pissing someone off, you probably aren't doing anything important.

Oliver