Quotes About Modern Feminism

#1. French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Naomi Wolf

#2. Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.

Betty Friedan

#3. It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

A. N. Wilson

#4. Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

Harriet Lerner

#5. Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

Katie Pavlich

#6. You say the nicest things,' Myrnin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. 'Marry me.' 'Exactly what part of the brain did that bullet hit?' Shane asked, hovering on the edge of manic laughter. Oliver sighed. 'He means carry me. And no. I won't.

Rachel Caine

#7. Why do you want to fight and win when you were born to understand and forgive? When you forgive, you always win.

Debasish Mridha

#8. This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associate with instead of those women now who's names I don't know because they weren't listed on Wikipedia.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#9. ... we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Philip K. Dick

#10. Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Terence McKenna

#11. Leaders fix things that are broken.

Andy Stanley

#12. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#14. If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

Douglas Self

#15. there are four standard cabins: first class, business class, economy class, and Ryanair.

Patrick Smith

#16. All life is emptiness. Fill it with endless love, bliss, and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Shannon Mullen

#18. Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.

Katha Pollitt

#19. Don't count your chickens before they turn into KFC

Yasmine Galenorn