I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West (The Clarion, 1913)
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West (The Clarion, 1913)
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Patriarchy has no allegiance to men; it uses them, too, and spits them out when they are no longer useful.
-- bell hooks (The Will to Change, 2004)
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Men are animals, walking dildos; women must overthrow the government and eliminate the male sex.
-- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967)
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Most men fear feminism because it demands they confront what they’ve done — or what they’ve benefited from.
-- Rebecca Traister (Interview with The Cut, 2018)
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A man who says he "lets" his wife work might as well boast that he "allows" the sun to rise.
-- Betty Friedan (It Changed My Life, 1976)
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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
-- Margaret Atwood (Interview in The Guardian, 1982)
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Woman is as much more excellent than man, as the best work of a Master exceeds his first essay.
-- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739)
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
-- Florynce Kennedy (Speech at National Organization for Women rally, Washington D.C., 1971)
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Men are unlit lamps: it is we women who supply the oil.
-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))
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Feminism is not about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.
-- G.D. Anderson (Interview, 2014)
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Men call it being rational when they hide from their feelings; women call it surviving when they face theirs.
-- Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, 2014)
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Men are always so certain of their authority; certainty is the luxury of those never forced to question themselves.
-- Arundhati Roy (Interview with Outlook India, 1998)
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