Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

… it is not sufficient to change laws, institutions and customs. It is essential that women acquire ‘a new skin’. This can occur only through a collective effort while women suffer and loathe the oppression of men; it does not follow that her ovaries condemn her to be on her knees for eternity.

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

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

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.