Carol Gilligan Quotes

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

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

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.

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.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

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

… this mad, wicked folly of women’s rights

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.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

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

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.

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.

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.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

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

Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

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.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.