Feminism

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 door mat or a prostitute. – Rebecca West, “Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice,” The Clarion, 1

Women belong in the house… and the Senate. – Author Unknown

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. – Evelyn Cunningham

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. – Roseanne Barr

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. – Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naÃ¯ve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – AnaÃ¯s Nin

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. – Author Unknown

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. – Julia Ward Howe

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

History is herstory too. – Author Unknown

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. – Lois Wyse

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. – Rabbi Sofer

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. – Sally Kempton, attributed

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. – Susan B. Anthony

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. – Marlo Thomas

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. – Madeleine K. Albright

I ask no favors for my sex…. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. – Sarah Moore GrimkÃ©

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug