Feminist History Quotes

#1. I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

Jessica Valenti

#2. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Betty Friedan

#3. Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

John Green

#4. The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

Edward Abbey

#5. She lived in fear of ifonic endings.

Anne Lamott

#6. I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

Rashid Al-Ghannushi

#7. It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca.

#8. Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they're short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It's defeatist and demoralising.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#9. A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

#10. What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

Steven V. Roberts

#11. Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

William Empson

#12. He kissed like a fucking dream. Like Deane filled out an application, requested, "Send me a boy who kisses like this," and the universe followed instructions to the letter.

Suanne Laqueur

#13. I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back forty years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' they would say, 'No.

Helen Mirren

#14. I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

Emilie Autumn

#15. The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.

Germaine Greer