Jessie Buckley Quotes

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 would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

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.

American women don't need to be lectured about values by men in Washington.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

We are not going back to where being a woman was a preexisting medical condition.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .