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What is your favourite feminist quote?

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DJLippy · 10/10/2019 18:31

It's cold and rainy and I want cheering up. Can women post me their favourite feminist quotes? Emmeline Pankhurst is somewhat of a goldmine.

Trust in God - she will provide

What do you think women?

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TemporaryPermanent · 10/10/2019 22:49

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.

BeMoreMagdalen · 10/10/2019 22:53

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.

HandsOffMyRights · 10/10/2019 22:56

This

What is your favourite feminist quote?
Queenoftheashes · 10/10/2019 22:57

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

HandsOffMyRights · 10/10/2019 22:58

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

What is your favourite feminist quote?
OhMyDarling · 10/10/2019 22:59

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.

WickedLemon · 10/10/2019 23:09

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

BettyFloop · 10/10/2019 23:16

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 Grin

Enterthewolves · 10/10/2019 23:22

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

Referencing cosmetic surgery

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 10/10/2019 23:43

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people
Cheris Kramarae

So, so true.

HugsAreMyDrugs · 11/10/2019 00:49

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

Oncewasblueandyellowtwo · 11/10/2019 00:59

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.

BitOfFun · 11/10/2019 01:00

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

womanaf · 11/10/2019 01:10

Fuck kind

Hannah Clarke

Hecalledmecarrots · 11/10/2019 06:53

“Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.”

  • Maryon Pearson
BolloxtoGender · 11/10/2019 07:45

“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.

Boiledeggandtoast · 11/10/2019 07:53

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.)

Boiledeggandtoast · 11/10/2019 07:56

Also from The Guardian on my fridge..

"At the worst, a house unkempt cannot be so distressing as a life unlived." Rose Macaulay

milliefiori · 11/10/2019 08:12

@BolloxtoGender - I think the point of that quote is that the woman never thought he was that good at anything but supported him and fostered his career (at the expense of her own) and watched as he shot to fame, belatedly thinking: shit, that could have been me if I'd only had the self confidence; my talent/expertise/insight/skill was way ahead of his when we started. But he had the self belief and he got full support from a wife.

I think self-confidence is a Feminist issue.

imjustanerd · 11/10/2019 08:21

I have nothing to add to this amazing list of feminist quotes other than I wish I had heard them when I was a teenager, I think certain aspects of my life would have been very different if I had.

milliefiori · 11/10/2019 08:24

I love: What would the mediocre man do? It is so empowering.

milliefiori · 11/10/2019 08:26

@BeMoreMagdalen - great post 10th Oct 22.53.04.
Beautifully put.

TinaBarrow · 11/10/2019 18:19

Never trust a man with testicles - Jo Brand circa 1990
It has a special added je ne sais quoi now I feel.

Craftycorvid · 11/10/2019 18:23

“Do you own a vagina? Do you want to be in charge of what happens to it? Welcome to the sisterhood.” Caitlin Moran defining feminism for me.

Saucery · 11/10/2019 18:24

Retain your loyalty, preserve your rights. Lady Anne Clifford.