Auguste Fickert Quotes

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

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Modernity, democracy, and change have enabled more and more Muslim women activists, and Muslim democrats all over the world, to realize they can work within the Islamic framework to find liberation within Islam…. We feel strongly that we have a right to reclaim our religion, to redefine it, and to make sure Islam is codified and implemented in ways that take into consideration the realities of women’s lives today.

[T]he great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment.

… 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.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

I remember when the feminist movement started. I was in Edmonton. There was no feminist movement in Edmonton.

You don't run a feminist agenda and achieve political power.

We demand that, in the strange new world that is arising alike upon the man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming new shapes and new relations, that in this new world we also have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the Children of Women. We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less. That is our ‘Woman’s Right’.

The end goal of the feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist revolution, not just elimination of male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

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

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

I want to empower women.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.