Elizabeth Moon Quotes

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

I can't even relate to the idea of raising a feminist.