Feminist Goals Quotes

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

What is the aim of the feminists? Their aim is to achieve the same advantages, the same power, the same rights within capitalist society as those possessed now by their husbands, fathers and brothers. What is the aim of the women workers? Their aim is to abolish all privileges deriving from birth or wealth. For the woman worker it Is a matter of indifference who is the 'master' a man or a woman. Together with the whole of her class, she can ease her position as a worker.

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.

I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

I believe that feminism needs to teach more girls about how to make institutional changes and how to further engage men and boys into being our allies.

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.