In my English Class, my teacher put up a creative writing extra credit on Halloween to write a spooky story using three phrases from a website (skeleton, dark night, three witches, - you get the gist) and I wrote a short story. I really enjoyed it - I've been writing for ten years but short stories had never been my thing. So then I wrote a short story called Terror and Karma about three young women who move into a super Christian town and are snubbed because they are raising their two younger brothers who are young teenagers because their parents died. They don't conform to the religion and are the antithesis to the community - And then a murder happens. The story is divided into three parts - Each told in the perspective of a different character - And I need quotes on feminism. I had such a good time doing that I wrote "Extreme Emotional Disturbance" about a girl molested by her stepbrother in the 1920s, a man drugged and brutally raped by a woman, and how they come together, in the same three part format, and then "Cornflake Girls" (or "Be a Man", not sure which title) in the same three part format, and I've decided to bind the three stories together plus the Halloween story and some poetry and make it a gift for Festivus.
But I want quotes specifically on feminism if you guys know any - There are other morals in the stories, for instance I used the poem "Do Not Gentle into that Good Night" for the moral of hope, but I really want some powerful feminism quotes that will get you thinking. And if you know just one or two good quotes on gay rights, that'd be great too.
I don't mind if you guys get a good Courtney quote, it doesn't have to be from someone "honorable". Thanks to anyone who helps!

Natascha & Sebastien: "I FUCKING HATE MEN"

Anais Nin has a bunch of good ones. She's the queen of vadge. Google her.

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"I can't do the dishes, I'm a feminist."
-my bitch wife

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anyway you can google "feminist quotes" as well as any man can

Lol! I love that. My friend always makes women jokes and they usually aren't that funny but the other week he said one that made me laugh a whole bunch. "Why are women's feet usually shorter than men's feet?... So they can stand closer to the sink"

Nonsense. My googling skills are far better than that of any woman. I scoff at women who attempt to google at my level and demand that they return to the kitchen from whence they came.

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I was told a terrible one the other day.

Q: Why do women have legs?

A: Have you ever seen the mess that a snail leaves?

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That took me a little bit to get. Haha. Thats kind of funny in a numbers are funny way.

The guy who told me had an alternate ending to that joke, just in case anyone had heard the first one before. That way he could call them sick and look down on them if they gave the snail answer. I can't remember what it was though.

Needless to say, this guy is a muppet of the highest order.

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Catherine MacKinnon's quote about whether a good fuck makes up for getting fucked was a good one, I think.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?


Oh Germaine......what would we do without you

ani difranco or simone de beauvoir were the first that popped into my head.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. S.B.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. S.B.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. S.B

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. S.B.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. A.D

also, the song reprieve

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In 2080 I'll surely be dead. So don't look ahead, never look ahead.

I'm thankful I don't fall in love with women. There's no way I could put up with their insanity for more than five minutes.

Straight men must be genetically conditioned to deal with their nonsense, because I honestly don't know why they put up with it. Sex can't be that hard to come by.

Of course I'm not talking about all women. Just most of them.

ahem
"ew boiz"

YOU WIN!

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As literary works you should read some of Angela Carter's fairy tales. She re-wrote a lot of the classic folktales with a feminist twist. Because if you look at the origins of those stories, the flolk tales, they were written as moral and emotional guidance for children and lead them into very stereotypical (and unfair) sexed roles. The maiden can never rescue herself from a dragon being so feeble and fair, a 'prince' always has to free her, then takes her as his bride as a prize. The role of witches! Always evil women, haggered and ugly. She turns them around giving the women positive roles - Red Riding hood seduces the wolf to over-power him, bluebeard is killed by his bride's sword weilding mother etc etc. She's awesome. Angela Carter was still trying to desperately write down creations she had in her mind - for the good of women - on her death bed. Saying she couldn't die without "doing it for the girls". She was a literary pioneer.

Theoretically Marina Warner also wrote/writes a lot on feminisim. 'Monuments and Maidens' is a famous one, also 'Alone of all Her Sex' about the Virgin Mary and the significance of the purity and chasteness of the virgin mother.

Another favoirite of mine is 'The Monstrous Feminine - film, feminism and psychoanalysis'' by Barbera Creed, read her book on the roles of women in film and you'll never see another movie the same way again. I was warned of this before I read it, it's very eye-opening and powerful.

Patience is a virtue, use it when you can
It's seldom found in women,
And never found in man.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
-Gloria Steinem

That's one of my favorites