(58 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.”
Susan Faludi
“Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along”
Rush Limbaugh
“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
“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
“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.”
Phyllis Schlafly
“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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