What is feminism? Quotes and Thoughts

Rebecca West:
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 or a prostitute.

Elaine Heffner:
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Gloria Steinem:
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism

Jane Galvin Lewis:
You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman

Michele Le Doeuff:
A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. ~Will Rogers

To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. ~Robin Morgan

"Feminism is not about a lack of faith in God. On the contrary, it is the actualization of faith; it is the acknowledgement that God is God and man is not. If we really go back to our roots, if we really look back at our original translations, if we really get into the sematntics of it all, I think we'll find that God - the real G0d - is a decidedly different entity from who we imagine God to be. God is bigger than gender, above and beyond mere matters of "male" and "female": I daresay we should be as well." - Anonymous