Power is the ability not to have to please

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal li — Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough. — Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

Significantly, in future feminist movement we will spend less time critiquing patriarchal marriage bonds and expend more — bell hooks

Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater” is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did — Jessica Valenti, Sex Object

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT KING TRITON. Specifically, King, why are you elderly but with the body of a teenage Beastmas — Lindy West

We say "misogynist"; I've written that "misogyny kills," but the world falls flat on your tongue - it's too academic sou — Jessica Valenti, Sex Object

No matter the content, the message is clear: we are here for their enjoyment and little else. We have to walk through th — Jessica Valenti, Sex Object

The rise of feminist underpants is a weird twist on Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, wherein consumer products — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Empowertising not only builds on the idea that any choice is a feminist choice if a self-labeled feminist deems it so, b — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women — Sarah Moss

$Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fracture — Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power$

More “Feminism” Quotes