Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

People learn to lead because they care about something.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Sexual racial gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt not just a laundry list of womens issues.

Feminism is a transformational force an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world a questioning of powerdomination issues an affirmation of womens energy.

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

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

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.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

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.

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.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

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.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.