“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I’m as good as any man? Yes.”
Yasmine Bleeth

“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
Pat Robertson

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
Rush Limbaugh

“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.”
Andrea Dworkin

“A backlash against women’s rights is nothing new. Indeed, it’s a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”
Susan Faludi

“And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men’s.”
Phyllis Schlafly

“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

“People have accepted the media’s idea of what feminism is, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.”
Judy Chicago

“The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.”
Betty Buckley

“The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
Susan B. Anthony

“In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.”
Nancy Astor

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
Janis Joplin

“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”
Martina Navratilova

“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
Princess Diana

“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Gloria Steinem

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf

“In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she’s a feminist or a masochist.”
Gloria Steinem

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
Erica Jong

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”
Clare Boothe Luce

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.”
Shirley Chisholm

“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
Madonna

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”
Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader’s Digest, March 2000

“I ask no favors for my sex…. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.”
Sarah Moore Grimké

“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
Gloria Steinem

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”
Gloria Steinem

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls”

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
Gloria Steinem

“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
Gloria Steinem