Quotes about Feminism

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.

That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.

MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road—literally. So far it's been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.

Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.

The personal is political.

In Western mythology, she might be compared to Medusa, the serpent-haired Greek goddess whose name means Knowing Woman or Protectress. She once was all-powerful—until patriarchy came along in the form of a mythic young man who chopped off her head. He was told to do this by Athena, who sprang full-blown from the mind of her father, Zeus—a goddess thought up by patriarchy and therefore motherless. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory In

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren.

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.