Clara Zetkin Quotes

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

All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

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

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias