(57 quotes found)
“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”
Ani Difranco
“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 doormat”
Rebecca West
“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
Pat Robertson
“I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”
Anita Loos
“The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism”
Heidi Hartmann
“Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along”
Rush Limbaugh
“We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth”
Sigmund Freud
“Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.”
Golda Meir
“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.”
Phyllis Schlafly
“Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.”
G. B. Trudeau