Feminist Movement Quotes

“Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?”
― Bell Hooks

“different women view different segments of the women's movement agenda as priority items.

(From Voices of Multicultural America)”
― Shirley Chisholm

“The movement has, for the most part, been led by educated white middle-class women. There is nothing unusual about this. Reform as movements are usually led by the better educated and better off. But, if the women's movement is to be successful you must recognize the broad variety of women there are and the depth and range of their interests and concerns. To black and Chicana women, picketing a restricted club or insisting on the title Ms. are not burning issues. They are more concerned about bread-and-butter items such as the extension of minimum wage, welfare reform and day care. Further, they are not only women but women of color and thus are subject to additional and sometimes different pressures.

(From Voices of Multicultural America)”
― Shirley Chisholm

“Those who are aware of history, of patriarchy and of the feminist movement, tend to understand how difficult it is—and how important—for people to rethink basic behaviors in order to bring about deep and lasting change. We must rethink how we speak, how we spend our time, and what we consume. This is as true for fighting sexism as it is for fighting speciesism—or any other form of domination, exploitation, and oppression. We must change our lives first, and most fundamentally. . . . [Feminists] can and must choose not to continue to exploit nonhuman animals while working to liberate girls and women”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“What drew me to politics was my love of women, the agony I felt in observing the straight-jackets of poverty and repression I saw in my own family. But the deepest political tragedy I have experienced is how with such grace, such blind faith, this commitment to women in the feminist movement grew to be exclusive and reactionary. I call my white sisters on this. I have had enough of this. And I am involved in this book because more than anything else I need to feel enlivened again in a movement that can finally, as my friend Amber Hollibaugh states, "ask the right questions and admit to not having all the answers.”
― Cherríe L. Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

“This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S.”
― Cherríe L. Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

“This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S.”
― Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back, 40th anniversary edition, Writings by Radical Women of Color

“I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people.”
― Rosario Morales, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color