Bra Burning Quotes

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing's worse than saggy duds.

Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.