Feminist Quotes

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

Emmeline Pankhurst

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Frederika Bremer

It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Shulamith Firestone

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart... those who have it are fit to see God.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.