Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

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

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created in the human mind.

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.

Well men have been engaged in this tomfoolery long enough and the Good Lord has seen fit to start having women engage in it also.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

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

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.