Feminism Quotes

“I lament that women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings

“In short, women have been deprived of their history—thus, their group identity.”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings

“The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings

“I love man as my fellow; but his sceptre, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings

“But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and, without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet;—”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings

“That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings

“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”
― Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings