Feminism

🇺🇸bell hooks

Education

Feminism

1952–2021

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

🇺🇸Warren Farrell

Science

feminism

b. 1943

"I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental."

🇺🇸Sue Monk Kidd

Literature

Feminism

b. 1948

"The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life."

"If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings."

🇺🇸Rebecca Solnit

Social Activism

Feminism

b. 1961

"... I think of voting as a chess move, not a valentine."

🇺🇸Adrienne Rich

Literature

Feminism

1929–2012

"Rich's letter of refusal for the National Medal for the Arts"

🇺🇸Erica Jong

Literature

Feminism

b. 1942

"If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault."

🇦🇺Germaine Greer

gender studies

Feminism

b. 1939

"Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to."

🇬🇧Begum Rokeya

Politics

Feminism

1880–1932

"Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on legacy of Begum Rokeya on, 9 December, 2015."

"Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten."

Mary Wollstonecraft

Philosophy

feminism

1759–1797

"You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on."

🇬🇧Marina Warner

Literature

Feminism

b. 1946

"Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear."

🇬🇧Milo Yiannopoulos

Journalism

Feminism

b. 1984

"I've been invited back to speak at my old high school, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, which once upon a time expelled me for absolutely outrageous behavior . The moral of the story is: success trumps everything!"

🇵🇰Taslima Nasrin

Literature

Feminism

b. 1962

"I was born in a Muslim family and Muslim women suffer under Islam."

🇺🇸Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Literature

feminism

1815–1902

"In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object."

"Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world."

🇺🇸Fannie Hurst

Literature

Feminism

1889–1968

"Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles."

🇺🇸Rebecca Walker

Social Activism

Feminism

b. 1969

"Part of what I wanted to do with Baby Love was to suggest that not only are you giving birth to a baby, but also you can use the experience to give birth to a new sense of yourself."

🇺🇸Betty Friedan

Literature

Feminism

1921–2006

"The problem that has no name is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease."

🇺🇸Amanda Gorman

Social Activism

Feminism

b. 1998

"Kelly Tears Up During Poetry Reading From Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman"

🇺🇸Gloria Steinem

Politics

feminism

1934–2026

"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."

🇮🇳Ritwik Ghatak

Entertainment

Feminism

1925–1976

"In relation to man and his society, experiment can not dangle on void. It must belong. Belong to man."

🇺🇸Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Politics

Feminism

1919–1995

"Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is."

🇬🇧Xiaolu Guo

Education

Feminism

b. 1973

"I Am China is a parallel story about two Chinese lovers in exile – the external and internal exile that I had felt since leaving China."

"For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such at that of North America, is an act of resistance."

🇺🇸Ann Richards

Politics

Feminism

1933–2006

"… we're going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage."

🇺🇸Chela Sandoval

Education

Feminism

b. 1956

"Late-capitalist retranslation of difference allows hierarchical and material differences in power between people to be erased from consciousness, even when these same economic and social privileges are bolstered."

🇺🇸Jill Johnston

Literature

Feminism

1929–2010

"Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man."

🇺🇸Christina Hoff Sommers

Philosophy

Feminism

b. 1950

"That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men."

"To Freud's confusion on what do women want, I would say we want to dismantle a racist and misogynist heteronormative patriarchy that sucks the life out of women."

"In this country, in this world, racism is used both to create false differences among us and to mask very significant ones—cultural, economic, political."

🇺🇸Alice Paul

Social Activism

feminism

1885–1977

"You didn’t have to be a good speaker, because the minute you began, you were arrested."