Frankie Boyle Quotes

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

The momentum for passage of the amendment has sort of worn out because it has already gone through in most of the states where it was natural …. There’s a natural backlash setting in towards the gains the women are making.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

I feel incredibly blessed that I'm in my generation and not my mother's generation. I feel that I'm very much benefitting from the strides that the women before me made.

The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.