Quotes and Sayings about Feminism

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

In our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

I don't know why the word "feminism" is so scary to people; it shouldn't be, because it just means equality.

We should stop calling feminists "feminists" and just start calling people who aren't feminist "sexist".

The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the females.

There is a wall of silence against women and violence, and every time a woman speaks out it breaks a crack in that wall.

To the women of this nation I want to say that being underestimated is a great advantage, because often they don't see you coming.

Woman: "Got some lady lawyer here."
Ingrid: "You can just say 'lawyer'."

None of us should accept a future in which our daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than we did.

Women who don't demand anything, are taken by their word - they don't get anything.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

It's not about counting women, it's about making sure that women count!

Girls today can be anything. CEO, Olympic golden medalist, even a Supreme Court Justice. We've finally broken that glass ceiling and, wow, it sure looks good from the top.

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.

A jealous female can be tricked into everything.

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Don't take a leak on my shoes and tell me it's raining.

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Don't ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she'll get a bigger gun.

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

If anybody even tries to whisper the word "diet," I'm like, "You can go f- yourself!"

It's time for society to stop telling girls what they should and shouldn't do. And instead through the quietest whispers and the loudest megaphones tell them that they are unstoppable. The world is desperate for leaders, male and female. It's not about gender, it's about purpose.

After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.