Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Marriage is such a lottery …. the poor woman is virtually a slave to her husband.

With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing.

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

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

Feminism is just like HIV awareness: It's not something we don't need anymore, it's something that is just as important as it was a few decades ago. It is a very important fight.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word "feminist" has a weird connotation.

The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.