What is your favourite feminist quote?

I thought it was Voltaire who said "Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law".

(I cut this out of The Guardian some years ago and it is stuck on my fridge.)

“Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.”

• Maryon Pearson

Not sure what that’s intended to mean. Could a wise MN decode that please.

I think I know, but 🤔 sure.

“Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.”

• Maryon Pearson

Fuck kind

Hannah Clarke

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
― Gloria Steinem

Ali1cedowntherabbithole
Thanks for that it's brilliant, I haven't heard it before. And What a lovely memory to have about your Dad.
I know it's been said but oh fuck off you wanker does it for me.

Feminism is the radical idea that a woman's safety is more important than a man's feelings.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people
Cheris Kramarae

So, so true.

Naomi Klein - Men don’t need to beat us anymore; we do it for them.

Referencing cosmetic surgery

Remember; resist, do not comply - Andrea Dworkin

Plus her 1983 "I want a twenty four hour truce during which there is no rape" speech.

Plus almost all of anything she ever published or said in public, quite frankly

I’m not going to keep quiet just because some people might get a bit upset. I’m 74. I don’t give a fuck any more

Margaret Nelson - Twitter Queen

Well behaved women rarely make history.

Don’t know where it’s from, just strikes a chord with me and inspires me to never bite my tongue or be passive just for an ‘easy life’ as my Nan said me and my sister should. Obviously she was from a different generation and having 4 boys herself plus only having brothers, I imagine much of her experiences sadly involved being quiet and biting her lip as self preservation.

But I also love this. I saw it on Twitter by a poster Ani/Anna? Not sure where it originated (with her or elsewhere).

Dinosaurs eat man... woman inherits the earth
Clever girl

This

Personally I am rather fond of the phrase 'Women's Liberation'. It encapsulates what feminism is for me - it mentions the word women first, and it doesn't piss about with cock-eyed notions of 'equality' or 'equity', it just straight up says 'liberation' which means to set free from the shackles which hold women as a class down in an ingrained culture designed for the comfort and benefit of men. I don't want us to be equal with the class that controls, exploits, rapes, beats, murders us. I want to be free from all of those things.

All men are potential rapists.
Susan Brownmiller

I like this quote because it is so misused and misunderstood - and because Against Our Will really stands up in its writing and analysis. It's not saying male sexuality is inherently violent, or that all men ARE rapists. What its saying is that rape happens with a penis, and that women cannot tell which people with penises are going to rape them. That all women have to take this into account in their daily lives, and there isn't a way out of it.

Barbara Kruger

I love that Dworkin quite, and many of her statements.
My favorite will always be: "Women have very little idea how much men hate them" by Germaine Greer.

Romance is the gilding on the bitter pill of patriarchy.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people
Cheris Kramarae.

''Nothing illustrates more vividly the subordination of women
than men deciding who can be one.''
Anon

“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” Susan B. Anthony, 1872

“Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore. It doesn't matter who the individual women are. They all have the same vulnerability to rape, to battery, as children to incest.
Poorer women have more vulnerability to prostitution, which is basically a form of sexual exploitation that is intolerable in an egalitarian society, which is the society we are fighting for.”
Andrea Dworkin

And I'm so sorry, I just couldn't resist posting this time honoured treasure because it makes my laugh every time;
“The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
Evangelist Pat Robertson.

Sisterhood is powerful

not so much a quote as a life lesson that I've found very useful and got from this board:

You can judge a man by what happens when a woman says no to him.