Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.

As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn't read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage daughters and was reading books on development and different issues.

I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.

I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition to the Islamophobic right, in the struggle between 'community' and 'women,' I always choose the women.

I think that women's lives are multilayered.

I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.