| "Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world." |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
1989 |
| "To be a feminist is to be a partisan of women's liberation." |
Sheila Jeffreys |
2003 |
| "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." |
Audre Lorde |
1981 |
| "The personal is political." |
Carol Hanisch |
1969 |
| "Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination." |
Redstockings Manifesto |
1969 |
| "We are not talking about a 'woman's role.' We are talking about making a whole new world." |
Alice Echols |
1989 |
| "The movement for woman's rights is not a movement for the benefit of any one sex; it is a movement for the benefit of all humanity." |
Anna Julia Cooper |
1892 |
| "The oppression of women is a system; it is not a set of individual prejudices." |
Marilyn Frye |
1983 |
| "Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible." |
Robin Morgan |
1970 |
| "Naming our own experience is the first step toward freedom." |
Gerda Lerner |
1986 |
| "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." |
Audre Lorde |
1984 |
| "We are the ancestors of a future that is still being born." |
Starhawk |
1987 |
| "The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance." |
Naomi Wolf |
1990 |
| "Women's history is women's right — an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long-range vision." |
Gerda Lerner |
1981 |
| "A woman's body is the battleground where her autonomy is either won or lost." |
Barbara Kruger |
1989 |
| "The more I think about it, the more I realize that the liberation of women is the liberation of the world." |
Fannie Lou Hamer |
1971 |
| "We are the ones we have been waiting for." |
June Jordan |
1980 |
| "They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work." |
Silvia Federici |
1975 |
| "There is no such thing as a 'woman's issue.' Everything is a woman's issue." |
Charlotte Bunch |
1987 |
| "A community that does not empower its women is a community that is already half-dead." |
Unknown |
|
| "I am a feminist because I want to destroy the patriarchy, not because I want a seat at its table." |
Unknown |
1970s-80s |
| "There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." |
Audre Lorde |
1982 |
| "When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her." |
Adrienne Rich |
1975 |
| "Sisterhood is not a destination, but a journey we take together." |
Unknown |
1970s |
| "To name ourselves is our first act of rebellion." |
Mary Daly |
1973 |
| "We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn." |
Tish Thawer |
2015 |
| "A feminism that is not intersectional is not feminism." |
Flavia Dzodan |
2011 |
| "A woman's best friend is her own autonomy." |
Unknown |
|
| "Feminism is not just about equality; it is about transformation." |
bell hooks |
2000 |
| "We are the architects of our own liberation." |
Redstockings |
1969 |
| "I am a woman's writings of herself." |
Dorothy Richardson |
1915 |
| "The most subversive thing a woman can do is to talk about her life as if it matters." |
Unknown |
1990s |
| "Resistance is the secret of joy." |
Alice Walker |
1992 |
| "Feminism is the fire." |
Women's Peace Camps |
1980s |
| "The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet." |
Mohadesa Najumi |
2013 |
| "Women's rights are not a favor being done for us." |
Bella Abzug |
1969 |
| "Rights are asserted, not given. They are won in the streets and in the archives." |
Mikki Kendall |
2020 |
| "The male gaze is not just a way of looking; it is a way of owning." |
Gail Dines |
2010 |
| "Women have been kept in a state of perpetual childhood by the patriarchal family." |
Shulamith Firestone |
1970 |
| "Pornography is the essential medium through which men learn to hate women." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1981 |
| "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." |
Margaret Atwood |
1982 |
| "I want to see a woman's body being the definition of power, not the object of it." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1974 |
| "The only thing more dangerous than a woman with a voice is a woman with a library." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1997 |
| "Men's 'sexual freedom' has almost always been built on the backs of women's bodies." |
Sheila Jeffreys |
2008 |
| "I am a woman-centered woman. I start with me and my sisters." |
Adrienne Rich |
1976 |
| "Only in the company of women can we truly begin to hear our own voices." |
Mary Daly |
1978 |
| "Tradition is the excuse used to keep women in their place." |
Bella Abzug |
1971 |
| "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." |
Marie Shear |
1986 |
| "Feminism involves so much more than gender equality. It involves freedom for all." |
Angela Davis |
1981 |
| "The problem that has no name is simply the fact that women are kept from being human." |
Betty Friedan |
1963 |
| "Women are the only oppressed group whose oppressors live in their homes." |
Betty Friedan |
1963 |
| "I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side." |
Maya Angelou |
1980s |
| "A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't." |
Rhoda Abbott |
1912 |
| "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." |
Florynce Kennedy |
1971 |
| "I've never been a 'lady.' A lady is a woman who has been tamed by a man." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1988 |
| "If women were free, there would be no such thing as a 'men's movement.'" |
Julie Bindel |
2011 |
| "I am a feminist because I am not a masochist." |
Germaine Greer |
1971 |
| "I don't think women are better than men, but I do think men are much worse than women." |
Kathleen Turner |
1980s |
| "Lesbianism is the only social-political structure that doesn't involve a man at the center." |
Sheila Jeffreys |
1990 |
| "The female body is a landscape of power, not a site for male recreation." |
Gail Dines |
2010 |
| "We are the women our parents warned us about." |
Feminist Slogan |
1970s |
| "Female friendship is the bedrock of a revolution." |
Mary Daly |
1978 |
| "Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice." |
Robin Morgan |
1974 |
| "I'm not a 'person of female experience.' I'm a woman." |
Julie Bindel |
2021 |
| "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." |
Margaret Thatcher |
1965 |
| "Every time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women." |
Maya Angelou |
1978 |
| "I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own life." |
Bella Abzug |
1977 |
| "Life is too short to be spent trying to please people who aren't even worth pleasing." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1988 |
| "My body is not a public space." |
Activist slogan |
1980s |
| "The sex industry is the only place where 'work' involves being used as a human toilet." |
Julie Bindel |
2014 |
| "If men could menstruate, they would brag about how long and how much." |
Gloria Steinem |
1978 |
| "The liberation of women is the fundamental prerequisite for the liberation of the world." |
Angela Davis |
1981 |
| "The project of feminism is to make the world fit women, not to make women fit the world." |
Gloria Steinem |
2023 |
| "Men's rights groups are just a way for men to complain about the consequences of their own actions." |
Julie Bindel |
2011 |
| "The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of women alive." |
Betty Friedan |
1963 |
| "Feminism is the only movement that doesn't have a 'men's auxiliary' because we don't need permission." |
Florynce Kennedy |
1973 |
| "Marriage is a form of 'labor-saving device'— for the husband." |
Betty Friedan |
1963 |
| "Radical feminism is the only theory that treats women as a distinct political class." |
Janice Raymond |
1986 |
| "I am a feminist because I love women. It's a very simple concept." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1995 |
| "If you aren't making someone uncomfortable, you aren't doing radical feminism." |
Julie Bindel |
2017 |
| "Male supremacy is a house of cards; it only takes one woman to stop playing." |
Slogan |
1980s |
| "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." |
Charlotte Brontë |
1847 |
| "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." |
Virginia Woolf |
1929 |
| "I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be." |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
2012 |
| "It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." |
Madeleine Albright |
2022 |
| "I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me." |
Maya Angelou |
1978 |
| "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of a few, just become a feminist." |
Alice Walker |
1983 |
| "We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever." |
Susan B. Anthony |
1876 |
| "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 |
1919 |
| "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." |
Charlotte Whitton |
1963 |
| "Ignorance is not bliss. It is the tool of the oppressor." |
Andrea Dworkin |
1988 |
| "I'm not a girl. I'm a storm." |
Nikita Gill |
2014 |
| "Every day I wake up and I am a woman. And I am powerful." |
Tribe 8 |
1995 |
| "I'm not a woman. I'm a whole revolution." |
Warsan Shire |
2011 |
| "I am not a decoration. I am the architect." |
Slogan |
1970s |
| "A woman who is not a feminist is like a bird that doesn't believe in flight." |
Janice Raymond |
2001 |
| "I'm not your soul sister. I'm not your dream girl." |
Bikini Kill |
1991 |
| "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." |
Virginia Woolf |
1938 |
| "I am my own sanctuary. I am my own home." |
Ani DiFranco |
1996 |
| "I don't need you to tell me I'm pretty; I don't need you to tell me I'm good." |
Bikini Kill |
1993 |