Why We Need Feminism Quotes

#1. I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

Rachel Cusk

#2. If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don't deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy.

Lucy H. Pearce

#3. It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Maggie Young

#4. The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.

Benita Roth

#5. I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Beyonce Knowles

#6. If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the "dirty work" of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.

Emily Matchar

#7. I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.

William Sloane Coffin

#8. [in the context of 1881] "Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" "What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.

Karen Cushman

#9. My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.

Amandla Stenberg

#10. I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

Stephanie Tyler

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

Susie Bright

#12. Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke ... She will need her sisterhood.

Gloria Steinem

#13. The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it's fucked up for you, in the same way that we've already recognized that it's fucked up for us. I don't need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?

Fred Moten

#14. Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

Andi Zeisler

#15. I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

Henry James

#16. Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn't need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Not like rose petals. Don't try to decorate.

Eve Ensler

#17. Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#18. We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. Turning the safety argument on its head, we now propose that what women need in order to maximize their access to public space as citizens is not greater surveillance or protectionism (however well meaning), but the right to take risks.

Shilpa Phadke

#20. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Hayao Miyazaki

#21. I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man.

Rod Duncan

#22. I don't need a man to be happy.

Monique Snyman

#23. Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Annie Lennox

#24. You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules p.79

Gloria Steinem

#25. Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.

Colette Dowling

#26. My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.

Kathleen Hanna

#27. Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

Caroline Criado-Perez

#28. I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ice-T

#29. Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

S. E. Cupp

#30. There is a need for promoting women's sexual agency in today's society, because if it wasn't an issue, terms such as 'female sexual empowerment' would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this vocabulary is indicative of that.

Miya Yamanouchi

#31. And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices
and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.

Gillian Flynn

#32. It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.

Caitlin Moran