#feminism

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#actually #always #attached #bogged #down

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#always #bulk #chores #doing #even

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#feminism #getting #good #much #point

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. ↗

— Brigham Young

#feminism #men #women #education

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition ↗

— Timothy Leary

#women #equality

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#been #certain #contemporary #feminism #issues

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#feminism #othello #equality

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

#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift