Feminist Quotes
The feminist movement encouraged women to leave the home and family. They promoted casual sex outside of marriage. They demanded the right for contraception and abortion. More job opportunities, more pay, and more authority at home, at church, and throughout society, including within the government.
Karl Marx
“Great progress was evident in the last Congress of the American ‘Labor Union’ in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).”
“Housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman…The building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been emancipated from that petty stultifying, unproductive work…We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework…These institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up where it is in any way possible.”
Vladimir Lenin
“The Bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation.”
“We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means.”
“There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
Susan B. Anthony
“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
“The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
Margaret Sanger
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
“By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.”
“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
Gloria Steinem
“[As long as the woman] is the primary caretaker of childhood, she is prevented from being a free human being.”
Kate Millett
“[Housework] is peculiarly suited to the capacities of feeble-minded girls, women who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps.”
Betty Friedan
“Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession… The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn’t be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that.”
Vivian Gornick
“Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the woman’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.”
“The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist.”
Sheila Cronin
“Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.”
Ti-Grace Atkinson
“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.”
Andrea Dworkin
"The nuclear family must be destroyed...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the breakup of families now is an objectively revolutionary process."
Linda Gordon
"It Takes a Village to raise a child."
"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion."
Hillary Clinton
“My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.”
Marilyn French
“Let’s forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace, and inspiration from real women…Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist ‘salvation’ of the world.”
Annie Laurie Gaylor
