Margaret Thatcher Quotes

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

Feminism, n. … truth gone mad.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

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

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

So this is feminist corner then.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

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

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

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

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

People get really turned off by feminism.

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

I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.

Feminism doesn't have a particularly constructive image, although I think there was time when it was relevant.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.