Chiu Chin Quotes

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

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.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.

… it is not sufficient to change laws, institutions and customs. It is essential that women acquire ‘a new skin’. This can occur only through a collective effort while women suffer and loathe the oppression of men; it does not follow that her ovaries condemn her to be on her knees for eternity.

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.

The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.