Laurie Simmons Quotes

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Feminism, n. … truth gone mad.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

No one knows what women want!

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.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.