Quotes about Feminism

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.