Favourite feminist quotes?

[GenderNo]

Let's share our favourite feminist quotes!

Here are some of mine:

"Your silence will not protect you"

• Audre Lorde

“Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.”
― Sheila Jeffreys

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. […] We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

• Malala Yousafzai

“Female is real, and it’s sex, and femininity is unreal, and it’s gender.”
― Germaine Greer

"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 use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are."
—Andrea Dworkin

Maya Angelou — 'Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.'

"Courage calls to courage everywhere" -- Dame Millicent Fawcett

Bell Hooks.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
– Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, 2000

No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’ … No woman has ever written enough.”
– Remembered Rapture: The Writer At Work, 1999

We continue to put in place the anti-sexist thinking and practice which affirms the reality that females can achieve self-actualization and success without dominating one another.”
– Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, 2000

Shazza from Bridget Jones. On men being that's...
"Fuck 'em fuck the lot of them"

Twats not that's

Not precisely feminist but it has come in useful so frequently over the last decade that I'm having it :

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou.

Bridget Jone 'I choose vodka and Chakka Khan'

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou.

Absolutely!

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

Dumbledore aka JKR

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom.” – Rosa Luxemburg

“Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” – Hellen Keller

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” – Toni Morrison

Mary Daly

Women who are Pirates in a phallocentric society are involved in a complex operation. First, it is necessary to Plunder that is, righteously rip off gems of knowledge that the patriarchs have stolen from us. Second, we must Smuggle back to other women our Plundered treasures. In order to invert strategies that will be big and bold enough for the next millennium, it is crucial that women share our experiences: the chances we have taken and the choices that have kept us alive. They are my Pirate's battle cry and a wake-up call for women who I want to hear.

What I'm trying to do right now is wake women and others up to the right-wing backlash -- the converging of conservative Catholicism and fundamentalism and all the rest, together with biotechnology, nectech [cloning, genetic manipulation, biological warfare]. All of that is stifling diversity and integrity, and so what I'm really working for is critical mass, a critical mass of feminists, ecologists. . . rebels. . . so there can be a survival of consciousness, a survival of biological and spiritual integrity, intellectual integrity.

Courage to be is the key to the revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Courage is like -- it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own" - Audre Lorde.

“women in time to come will do much” Mary Ward, 1612

'I'd rather be rude than a fucking liar' - Magdalene Burns

'No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex' - Susan B. Anthony

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

The old uns are the best uns.

@MintyMoocow

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

The old uns are the best uns.

(Got some great coasters of that with the Guinness ad photos of....a fish on a bicycle!)

Not a feminist quote in origin but so apt at the moment:

When sleeping women wake, mountains move.

''Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.''
Margaret Atwood

''Women have very little idea of how much men hate them...men do not themselves know the depths of their hatred''
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch, chapter ''Loathing and Disgust.''

“Most women cannot afford, either materially or psychologically, to recognize that whatever burnt offerings of obedience they bring to beg protection will not appease the angry little gods around them.”

• Andrea Dworkin

“All space becomes male space unless females maintain a concerted effort to mark a space for themselves.”
Sheila Jeffreys

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

''Consent is accommodation to conditions we do not control. Liberation is the overthrow of those conditions.''
Lierre Keith

"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

“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

"[T]he end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally."

• Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex

Women are not men’s support humans
-no idea

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Marie Shear

"I'm a Radical Feminist - not the fun kind".

Andrea Dworkin