Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

When women speak out and say there is a problem, the answer is not, 'No there isn't.'

I talk about feminism being a spectrum.

I think people have to understand that 'empowering' for women doesn't mean negating men.

Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.

I love my play 'The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife' because I get these letters from all of these women who literally have left their spouses who were abusing them. You know, I'm just breaking up marriages right and left. But, that need to be broken up.

As a society, we need to create an environment that encourages women to make the choices that are available to them and encourages them to speak their mind.

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

Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.

I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true voice, our authentic voice, dwells. But there's also the silence that censors us, that tells us what we have to say does not want to be heard, should not be heard, has no value. And that if we speak, it will be at our own peril. This kind of silence is deadly. This kind of silence is deadening to who we are as women. And when a woman is silenced, the world is silenced. When a woman speaks, there is an opening.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.