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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. (Allende Isabel)
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. (Allende Isabel)
The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change. (Allende Isabel)
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. (Allende Isabel)
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. (Allende Isabel)
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de sicle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way. (Allende Isabel)
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. (Allende Isabel)
Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. (Allende Isabel)
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. (Allende Isabel)
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. (Allende Isabel)
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. (Allende Isabel)
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred -- it is the amphetamine of its believers. (Allende Isabel)
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. (Allende Isabel)
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (Allende Isabel)
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. (Allende Isabel)
In the battle of the sexes, woman gains her greatest victory by surrendering. (Allende Isabel)
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. (Allende Isabel)
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country. (Allende Isabel)
I am strongly feminist, and I'm interested in current affairs, and on an international level-it's important to realise what's going on in the rest of the world, and the importance of where we're from in how it shapes us and our views. (Allende Isabel)
“Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.” (Allende Isabel)
“Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.” (Allende Isabel)
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues. (Allende Isabel)
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. (Allende Isabel)
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. (Allende Isabel)
Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help. (Allende Isabel)
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