Yoko Ono 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.

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

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.

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.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

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

… it is not sufficient to change laws, institutions and customs. It is essential that women acquire ‘a new skin’. This can occur only through a collective effort while women suffer and loathe the oppression of men; it does not follow that her ovaries condemn her to be on her knees for eternity.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

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

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

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.