Margaret Sanger Quotes

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it's all women's responsibility to step forward.

If you look back at what I believe and what I stand for, I am certainly a proud feminist.

I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?