Marilyn Minter Quotes

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Let every woman ask herself, Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband, giving me in exchange what he deems fit?

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

If you want to control human reproduction you have to control women’s bodies.

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

I'm an old feminist and member of the anti-Nazi league.

When the extreme right-wing... charges forward with a defund Planned Parenthood, anti-Planned Parenthood focused message, what happens is that people rally even more around Planned Parenthood.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

As a woman, my stance is that I'm a fighter, and in no way will I support any kind of injustice against women in our society.

So many of these decisions are made in a vacuum with a bunch of men sitting around a table deciding what a woman's rights should be, what our access to health care, trying to control women by controlling our bodies.

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually men - have tried to control women's bodies.

I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"

We need to respect choices that women make.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.