Shulamith Firestone Quotes

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

I am part of a movement that loves women into conversation and conversion. I am part of the pro-woman movement.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

The world needs a revolution led by women.

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

The issue [abortion] has come to symbolize what role women are going to play in American society. It's about power as much as anything else.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

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

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men in government and in power don't think the type of things needed to make a change.