Second Wave Feminism Quotes

#1. First-wave video games and second-wave feminism were contemporaries.

Nick Dyer-Witheford

#2. When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#3. 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

#4. Women's liberation did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.

Germaine Greer

#5. For those of you who skipped their women's studies classes, first-wave feminism got women the vote; second-wave got them employed and divorced; third-wave is busy making them porn stars. More or less.

Kathleen Parker

#6. The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.

Germaine Greer

#7. I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

Dana Goodyear

#8. Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.

Erika Christensen

#9. For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Mike Huckabee

#10. I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

Vidal Sassoon

#11. There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

George W. Bush

#12. I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?

Molly Ringle

#13. With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

Daniel Quinn

#14. Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

Adam McKay

#15. Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Noam Chomsky

#16. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts ...

William Shakespeare

#17. Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

Germaine Greer

#18. Radical feminists didn't need FBI infiltration - the mechanism for sisterly cannibalization was already well under way.

Susie Bright

#19. Hope is a moral choice.

Jim Yong Kim

#20. Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Germaine Greer

#21. The Nazis were anti-Christian, but they would pretend to be Christians as long as it served their purposes of getting theologically ignorant Germans on their side against the Jews.

Eric Metaxas

#22. Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Germaine Greer

#23. Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

Thomas E. Mann

#24. In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing.

Cindy Marcus