Marisa Tomei Quotes

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

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

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

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.

A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

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

… this mad, wicked folly of women’s rights

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing

I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

Women are very special. I think it's a very special time because a lot of things are coming out and I think that's good for our society and I think it is very, very good for women. And I'm very happy a lot of these things are coming out. And I am very happy - I'm very happy it's being exposed.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

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.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

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

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

For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

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

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

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.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.