Historical Feminist Quotes & Sayings

The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby. — Laozi

Buy it." This is my sister Amy's advice in regard to everything, from a taxidermied horse head to a camouflage thong. "Just get it," she says. "You'll feel better." Eye something closely or pick it up for further inspection, and she'll move in to justify the cost. "It's not really that expensive, and, besides, won't you be getting a tax refund? Go on. Treat yourself. — David Sedaris

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you. — Ben Morgan

He adored force and hated weakness. It is the crime of female natures. — Francois Mauriac

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism — Nancy Hartsock

There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. — Andrew Revkin

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own. — Adrienne Rich

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy! — Arthur Rimbaud

The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination. — Nancy Hartsock

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. — Pope John Paul II

He just f****d my name right in front of me. — Katy Evans

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again. — Michael Chang

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now. — Anthony Burgess

You are message to the world make it motivating. — Nadair Desmar

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot. — Kathleen Hanna

I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before I identified as a feminist myself, I thought of feminism as more of a historical term describing the women's movement in the '70s but didn't know much about what they had done and didn't think it applied to my life at all. — Julie Zeilinger

You attract whatever you focus your full attention on. That thing can be good or bad. The universe doesn't discriminate between the two. It will bring you whatever you think about. This is the Law of Attraction. — Read Dragon Publishing

Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there? — Greg Gutfeld