Lorrie Moore Quotes

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

There is nothin' like a dame.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

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.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I like women. I love women.

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.

Women are the real architects of society.