The 100 Best Feminist (Smart) Phrases

In this article I will leave you 100 celebrities Feminist phrases Smart writers such as Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt and many more.

According to the Royal Spanish Academy, feminism is defined as"Ideology that defends that women should have the same rights as men"... and nothing more. Other definitions that we can achieve are"Doctrine and social movement that asks for the woman the recognition of abilities and rights that traditionally have been reserved for the men"; "The Latin femĭna ("woman"), feminism is the social doctrine favorable to women.

It is a movement that demands that men and women have the same rights: therefore, it grants the feminine gender capabilities previously reserved only to men."

Although they sound rather simple, feminism is much more than the above and brings together a series of ideas, thoughts and historical facts that explain its essence much better than the"meanings"mentioned. To do this, we leave these 100 key phrases before going into detail:

1. When you educate a man, you educate a man; When you educate a woman, you educate a generation. Brigham Young, American Mormon prophet.
2. I do not like to hear you speak of all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us wants to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen, English writer.
3. I am strong, I am ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a"bitch", that's fine. Madonna, American singer.
4. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
5. I've never been able to figure out exactly what feminism is: I just know that people call me a feminist whenever I express feelings that set me apart from a doormat. Rebecca West, English writer and journalist.
6. "Feminism"is a radical notion that women are human beings. Cheris Kramarae. American Sociolinguist, author of"The Feminist Dictionary".
7. I hate men who fear the strength of women. Anaís Nin, American writer.
8. The question that women have not yet learned is that no one gives them power. They just take it. Roseanne Barr, American writer and policy.
9. No woman has an orgasm by cleaning the kitchen floor. Betty Friedan, American feminist theorist.
10. I know enough to understand that no woman should ever marry a man who hates her mother. Martha Gellhorn, American writer and journalist.
11. A feminist is whoever recognizes equality and full humanity in women and men. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
12. Men fear that women will laugh at them. Women fear that men will kill them. Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet and novelist.
13. If we do not lend to the particular care and attention, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and we will not abide by any of the laws in which we have no voice or representation. Abigail Adams, the first second lady and second lady of the United States.
14. It is not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable I am. Warsan Shire, English writer and poet.
15. As long as she thinks of a man, no one objects to a woman's thought. Virginia Woolf, English writer.
16. There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. Madeleine Albright, US policy.
17. Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be struggling with. It is a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need to settle on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny found in all cultures is not a real part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something from the soul of every man and woman that faces it. We need equality. Now! Joss Whedon, American writer and screenwriter.
18. Wherever a great man finds himself, he finds a great mother or a great wife behind him, or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great parents and husbands behind them. Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer.
19. Women have served all these centuries as spectacles to see that they possess the magic and the delicious power to reflect the figure of the man to double of its natural size. Virginia Woolf, English writer.
20. One is not born a woman. One becomes a woman. Simone de Beauvoir, French writer.
21. Men should think twice before making widowhood the only way for women to power. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
22. My own genre, I hope, will forgive me if I treat them as rational creatures, instead of flattering their"fascinating graces,"and seeing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand on their own. Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher and writer.
23. It is easier to live through another person than to complete oneself. The freedom to direct and plan your own life is terrifying if you have never faced it before. It is terrifying when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question"who am I,"except the voice within herself. Betty Friedan, American theorist.
24. The history of the opposition of men to the emancipation of women is more interesting, perhaps, than the history of emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf, English writer.
25. We teach girls to shrink themselves to make themselves smaller. We tell you,"You can have ambition, but not too much." "You must try to be successful, but not too successful." Otherwise, they could endanger the man. Because I am a woman, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always bearing in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy, love and mutual support, but why teach girls to aspire to marriage and not teach children in the same way? We teach girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or achievements, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they can not be sexual beings in the way they are children. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist.
26. No woman can call herself"free"when she has no control over her own body. Margaret Sanger, American nurse.
27. I do not think I opened a book in my life that had nothing to say about the inconstancy of the woman. Songs and proverbs, all speak of the inconstancy of the woman. But perhaps I should say that these were written by men. Jane Austen, English writer.
28. Women may be the group that becomes more radical with age. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
29. Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women are not raped because they drink or take drugs. Women are not raped because they are not careful enough. Women are raped because someone rapes them. Jessica Valenti, American feminist blogger.
30. Do you really believe that everything that historians tell us about men, or women, is really true? You should consider the fact that these stories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. Moderata Fountain, Venetian writer.
31. The degradation of women is rooted in the idea of ​​the man of his sexual rights. Our religion, the laws, the customs, are based on the belief that the woman was made for the man. Elisabeth Cady Stanton, American activist.
32. If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little surprised; But the most intelligent, the most keen men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read us in a true light: they misinterpret us, both for good and for evil: their good wife is a strange, half thing Doll, half angel; His bad wife is almost always a demon. Charlotte Brontë, English novelist.
33. Any woman who chooses to behave as a complete human being must be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as a kind of heavy joke. . . She will need your sisterhood. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
34. Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; Is the political defense for hatred toward women. Andrea Dworkin.
35. We can not all succeed when half of us are being held. Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani feminist blogger.
36. Hitting a woman is not a cultural thing, it is a crime, and it must be addressed and treated as such. Hillary Clinton, US policy.
37. Rape is one of the most horrible crimes on earth and it happens every minute. The problem with groups dealing with rape is that they educate women so they can defend themselves. What is really needed is that they educate men not to rape. Go to the root and start there. Kurt Cobain, American singer.
38. You do not have to be beautiful. You owe no beauty to anyone. Not your boyfriend, husband, partner, or your co-workers, or especially any man on the street. You do not owe it to your mother, you do not owe it to your children, nor owe it to civilization in general. Beauty is not an income you should pay to occupy a space marked"woman." Diana Vreeland, French columnist and publisher.
39. Feminism has not fought any war. He has not murdered his opponents. He has not created concentration camps, starved his enemies, or practiced cruelties. Their battles have been for education, for the right to vote, for better working conditions, for street safety, for the care of girls, for social welfare, for rape crisis centers, for women's shelters, for legal reforms . If someone says,"Oh, I'm not a feminist,"I ask,"why? What's your problem?"Dale Spender, an Australian writer.
40. For most of the story, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf, English writer.
41. Although we have the courage to raise our daughters as our children, we rarely have the courage to raise our children as our daughters. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
42. At one point, I was a happy African-American feminist, who does not hate men, likes lipstick, and wears high heels for herself, not for men. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist.
43. Once a man asked me... how I did in my books to write such a natural conversation among men when they were alone. Was I by any chance a member of a large family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had hardly seen or talked to any man my age until I was about twenty-five. "Well,"said the man,"I should not have expected that a woman (referring to me) would have been able to do so convincingly."I replied that I had faced this difficult problem by having my men speak, As much as possible, just like ordinary humans. This aspect of the question seemed to surprise the interlocutor; He did not say anything else, but he left as if chewing. One of these days it may very likely occur to you that women, like men, when left alone, speak very much like humans. Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer.
44. Feminism is not simply about being a woman in a position of power. There is a struggle against systemic inequalities; It is a social justice movement that believes that sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they must be constantly challenged. Jessica Valenti, American feminist blogger.
45. Feminism, unlike almost all other social movements, is not a struggle against a different oppressor, not the ruling class or the occupiers or settlers. It goes against a deeply ingrained set of beliefs and assumptions that women, too often, maintain. Kavita Ramdas, a Hindu spokeswoman.
46. A culture obsessed with feminine thinness is not"obsessed"with feminine beauty, but with female obedience. Diet is the most potent political sedative in the history of women; A silent population is a treatable group. Naomi Wolf, American political writer and consultant.
47. It is vain to expect the virtue of women until they are to some extent independent of men. Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher and writer.
48. What is feminism? It is simply the belief that women should be as free as men, no matter how crazy, shy, maniacal, badly dressed, fat, retarded, lazy and smug. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course it is. Caitlin Moran, English writer.
49. My conclusion is that the enemy is not the lipstick, but the guilt itself; That we deserve lipstick, if we wish, and freedom of expression; That we deserve to be sexual and serious, or whatever we please; We have the right to wear cowboy boots in our own revolution. Naomi Wolf, American political writer and consultant.
50. I am against marriage as a matter of principle.... Why intelligent, independent woman choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I must find a man as sensitive as I am! Barbara Mertz (under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Peters), American writer.
51. Feminism has never been about getting a job for a woman. It is about making life more just for women around the world. It is not a piece of existing cake; There are too many of us for that. It is about baking a cake again. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
52. A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until you get into the hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat.
53. If you want something said, ask a man; If you want something well done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher, English politics.
54. When a man gives his opinion, he is a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she is a"bitch." Bette Davis, American actress.
55. Of course I'm not worried about intimidating men. The kind of man who intimidates me is exactly the kind of man I have no interest in. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist.
56. The woman has only one way to overcome in merits to the man: to be every day more woman. Ángel Ganivet, writer, essayist and Spanish novelist.
57. It took me a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it I will not be silent. Madeleine Albright, US policy.
58. Women are the real architects of society. Harriet Beecher Stower, American abolitionist.
59. I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes she will not let him out. Then there is a tragedy, and suddenly, strength comes. My message is to let the force leave before the tragedy. Diane von Furstenberg, Belgian fashion designer.
60. Women are supposed to be generally very calm, but women feel the same as men; They need to exercise their faculties and a field for their efforts, just as their brothers do; They suffer by having too rigid a restriction, too absolute in a stagnation, just as men would suffer, and it is intolerant (in their most privileged fellows) to say that they should limit themselves to making puddings and knit stockings, playing the piano, and embroidering. It is imprudent to condemn them, or to laugh at them if they try to do more or learn more than the custom has pronounced as necessary for their sex. Charlotte Brontë, English novelist.
61. Women have always been the strongest in the world. Men are always looking for women a small pillow to support their heads. They are always the yearning of the mother who nursed them during childhood. Coco Chanel, French fashion designer.
62. I think the rights of women and girls is the pending issue of the 21st century. Hillary Clinton, US policy.
63. Men are visually excited with women's bodies and are less sensitive to arousal by their personalities, because they are soon trained in this behavior; While women are visually excited less and are more aroused by the emotions of men because that is their training. This asymmetry in the sexual education of men keeps the power in the myth: They see the bodies of women, evaluate and move forward; Their own bodies are not seen, evaluated, taken or overlooked. But there is no"rock called gender"responsible for that; Can be changed, so that true reciprocity, an equal look, equal vulnerability, equal desire, would lead to the real union of heterosexual men and women. Naomi Wolf, American political writer and consultant.
64. As a woman, in life it is better to earn your own money. She could not stop her husband from leaving her or going with another woman, but he could maintain some of his dignity if he did not have to beg for financial support. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch politician and writer.
65. Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other and belong to themselves. Louise Bernikow. American author.
66. Great minds can have cold hearts. Shape but not color. It is an incomplete state. And so they are afraid of any woman who thinks and feels deeply. Sena Jeter Naslund, American writer.
67. My idea of ​​feminism is self-determination, and it is very open: every woman has the right to be herself and to do what she has to do. Ani di Franco, American singer-songwriter.
68. No one is more arrogant with women, more aggressive or disdainful, than the man who cares about his manhood. Simone de Beauvoir, French writer.
69. I believe that the woman who is able to earn a living and pay her own way should be as happy as anyone on earth. The feeling of independence and security is very sweet. Susan B. Anthony, leader of the US civil rights movement.
70. Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism does not understand or know what feminism is, and he's afraid of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear. Neil Strauss, American journalist.
71. I think men should treat women as something other than weaker men with breasts. Jim Butcher, American author.
72. Whatever women do, they have to do twice as good as men to be considered half good. Fortunately, this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton, Canadian feminist.
73. For me, feminism is such a simple description: it is the equality of rights: economic rights, political rights and social rights. Callie Khouri, American screenwriter.
74. When you grow up as a girl, it is as if there are weak lines of chalk about three inches around your whole body at all times, made by society, often religion, family and especially other women, than some Way they feel interested in the way you behave, as if your actions are reflected directly in every female condition. ME. Thomas, American writer.
75. I am very open about gender categories, and my feminism has been about women's security in the face of violence, increased literacy, reduced poverty and greater equality. Judith Butler, American philosopher.
76. My generation was not only vilified in book reviews and attacked in college, but also lived to see our beloved and beloved daughters wonder why feminism has become a bad word. Erica Jong, American writer.
77. They cut off their wings and then blame them for not knowing how to fly. Simone de Beauvoir, French writer.
78. Feminism is for all women and girls, it is not a privilege of a few or an ethnic group, religious, a certain age, sexual preference, ability, region or continent. Robin Morgan, American poet.
79. When men are oppressed, it is a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it is tradition. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, American journalist.
80. One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism for us, has been to make it a little easier to simply be Black and woman. Barbara Smith, American writer.
81. Men, although they know very well how much women are worth and how great are the benefits they give them, try nevertheless to destroy us out of envy to our merits. He is like the raven when it produces white chickens: it is so afflicted by envy, knowing how black it is, that it kills its own offspring out of spite. Moderata Fountain, Venetian writer.
82. The good thing about the Internet is that it is allowing women more access to their own story. Part of the problem before the internet was that we did not know what books to read. Someone had to tell us. Kathleen Hanna, American musician.
83. It is the woman, almost always, despite all the advances of modern feminism, who still is responsible for most of the tasks of the home, in addition to doing their paid work. This is true even in homes where men try to be generous and do their part. A. N. Wilson, English writer and journalist.
84. Feminism is not about hating men. It is about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and lead in adulthood. Robert Webb, English comedian.
85. Feminism is just an idea. It is a philosophy. It is about the equality of women in all areas. It is not about andropobas. It's not about not having a sense of humor. We have to put aside these false ideas that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years. Roxane Gay, American professor and writer.
86. The Victorian woman became her ovaries, just as today's woman has become her"beauty". Naomi Wolf, American political writer and consultant.
87. The only way for a woman, as well as a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is because of her own creative work. Betty Friedan, American theorist.
88. Marriage is an economic agreement, a security pact... Marriage insurance condemns women to a long life of dependence, of parasitism, of total uselessness, both from an individual and a social point of view. Emma Goldman, Lithuanian anarchist.
89. I think feminism is about the spirit. Jane Fonda, American actress.
90. Male domination is so ingrained in our Collective unconscious , That we do not even see it anymore. Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist.
91. If you are not a feminist in love, you can not recognize someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of being romantically attracted to someone who does not see her as an equal. Gloria Steinem, American journalist.
92. There are many women who think now,"Surely we no longer need feminism, we are liberated and society accepts us as we are." Which is silly. Not true at all. Yoko Ono, Japanese artist.
93. People have accepted the media idea about what feminism is, but that does not mean it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is a wide variety of opinions. Judy Chicago, American artist.
94. Self-responsibility means refusing to allow others to think, speak, and name for you; It means learning to respect and use their own brains and instincts; Struggling with hard work. Adrienne Rich, American poet, intellectual and critic.
95. Is not feminism current? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for the majority of our sisters in the rest of the world, who are still forced to contract precocious marriage, prostitution, forced labor, Children who do not want or can not feed themselves. Isabel Allende, Chilean writer.
96. Feminism is not dead, by any means. It has evolved. If you do not like the term, change it, by Holy God. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or fool, or whatever you want; The name does not matter, as long as we understand what it is, and support it. Isabel Allende, Chilean writer.
97. Of all the unpleasant results predicted by female liberation... none was more alarming than the suggestion that women in the long run would be the same as men. Barbara Ehrenreich, American essayist.
98. I think domestic work is much more exhausting and frightening than hunting, without comparison. And yet, after the hunt, we have eggs for tea and rest for hours. But after the housework, people expect you to go on as if nothing special had happened. Nancy Mitford, English novelist.
99. The point for women is not simply to take the power from the hands of men, since that would not change anything of the world. It is a matter precisely to destroy that notion of power. Simone de Beauvoir, French writer.
100. Many of my films have brave and strong girls as a central figure, self-sufficient, who do not think twice before fighting with their whole heart for what they believe. They need a friend or supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is as capable of being a hero as any man. Hayao Miyazaki, animation director, producer, animator, illustrator, manga artist and Japanese anime producer.

This is how the feminists who have made the difference and who through their ideas have written the history of the struggle of women for the recognition of their fundamental rights, in a society that has been dominated by men. From its beginnings, in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, these and many others have questioned the established norms as well as the structures of power that continue to maintain the feminine gender in a plane of inferiority before the masculine gender.

Initially, the struggle focused on the right of women to education and work. As time went by and society became more modernized, more women and men joined the movement, continuing to stand in the war so that they would be recognized as citizens with the right to vote and with full freedom to choose their peers, Beyond what the"father of the family"decided. Going even further, feminists have worked hard to gain acceptance of their skills as professionals, scaling important positions in the business and political spheres.

However, there is still a long way to go, because despite the fact that in Europe and America, women enjoy freedoms and rights such as education, suffrage and work, as a society we continue to be victims and creators of the"objectification of women "(Tendency to treat and use the female body as an object, whether for advertising or sexual purposes), gender crimes and sexual violence (inside and outside the home).

We also see how the professional success of some women is criticized and called into question, noting that they are not fulfilling their roles as"mother"and"wife", calling them"selfish"and assuming that the true function of Women on earth is to marry and have children.

Not to mention that the tendency persists to underestimate the female criterion in certain spheres of power, being this object of mockery and jokes alluding to the gender. Similarly, there are still many societies where women are not much more than an adornment for man, a machine to have and raise children and is subjected to torture and mutilation if it does not comply with the laws imposed on their cultures.

For this reason, feminism continues and will continue to exist until, as a society, we reach maturity enough to recognize in women a group as capable and evolved as man, sharing political, economic and social spaces without the presence of one supposes Submission and / or inferiority of the other.