Feminism Quotes - Page 4

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
- However bright your wits -
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.

The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .

It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things-their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies.

I find it easier to claim that I am friends with a monkey rather than with a man.

The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

Every woman is well aware of the deadly ingredients of her soul which is why they all detest each other.

A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings and Ecopsychology tells us that human beings are Earthlings. We are all related, so cooperation rather than exploitation is the only true choice we have been given.

A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her. She may be sitting here amongst us.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

"Well, Eve - it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.