Joss Whedon Quotes

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

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.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

People get really turned off by feminism.

Feminism is cancer.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V.

What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked "other."

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.