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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 door mat or a prostitute. -Rebecca
West
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
~Ernest Gaines
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
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. Leonard P. Matlovich
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. -Roseanne Barr
You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. -Jane Galvin Lewis
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be
able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me
to overcome was the fear of that. -Chaz Bono
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were
men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very
invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status. - Howard Zin
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that
many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. - James
Baldwin
How many years can some people exist
before they’re allowed to be free…
– Bob Dylan
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. - Marlo
Thomas
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their
opressors. - Evelyn Cunningham
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never
been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a
human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they
do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. - Paul Newman
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. - Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on
me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who
has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anaïs Nin
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. - Alanis Morissette
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely
untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. - Boy George
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. - Lois Wyse
What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in
Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it
doesn't mean that John and Mary can't. - Ed Fallon
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. - Sally Kempton, attributed
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to
everybody. - Florynce Kennedy
While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few
persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian,
and bisexual youth. - Virginia Uribe and Karen Harbeck
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
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive
environment in which to achieve their full potential. ― Harvey Milk
How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete? - Author Unknown
Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how
it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and
church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul. ― Bruce Bawer
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the
very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. - Lucretia Mott
Love is a Beautiful thing and sex is a beautiful thing, so what is the problem?
- Debora Harry
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. - Robin
Morgan
I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans
themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations,
or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals. ― Julia Serano, Whipping
Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
If you take away my reproductive rights, can I take away yours? – Pro-choice sign
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. - Margaret Mead
There's something contagious about demanding freedom. - Robin Morgan
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. - Estelle R. Ramey
I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like
when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are
the signs of a life lived. - Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. - Gloria Steinem
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming
round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. - Mary Wollstonecraft, (born:1759, died 1797)
I stared far back into my past and remembered the child who couldn't be catalogued by Sears. I saw her
standing in front of her own mirror, in her father's suit, asking me if I was the person she would grow up
and become. Yes, I answered her. And I thought how brave she was to have begun this journey, to have
withstood the towering judgements. - Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played
my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother.
That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. - Lillian Gish
Easy [slutty] is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. - Nancy LinnDesmond
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs. - Patti Smith
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her
hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has
been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. - Mercy B.
Jackson
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to
admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody. -Billie Jean King
The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter
to your congressman but to come out. -Barney Frank
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.― Bette Davis
I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either. The
trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other. -Kate Bornstein
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. ― Margaret Sanger
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched
slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and
Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is
this all?” ― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. - Dora Russell
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full,
rich life, and I am incidentally gay. - Portia de Rossi
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. — Dorothy Allison
No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. - Billie Jean King
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. - Audre
Lorde
I ascertain that I am homosexual. Okay that's no cause for alarm. How and why are idle questions. It's a
little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. -Jean Genet