Amy Schumer Quotes

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Who laughs less than feminists?

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

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I'm not involved with the female world.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

The social degradation of women was a major objective of the feminist movement…. They tell women that in order to be equal they have to be just as promiscuous as men… The Constitution is a beautiful sex neutral document…. The whole idea of feminism is a fraud. As a matter of fact, it is worse than a fraud.