Here you’ll find a diverse range of perspectives and a selection of some of the seminal voices that have helped to shape and continue to shape feminist thinking.  

“A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

“My feminist nomadic subjects are all about engaging with the complexity of our own interaction with human and non-human elements, and our own multiple layers of belonging as subjects-in-process.”

“To pull it off, we have to be very imaginative and undogmatic—not simply drawing on current trends, on past Left thinking or hoped-for solutions from markets and technology. We have to be absolutely inventive, creative, open, pluralistic, and humble. And we have to be totally committed to nonstupidity.”

“‘Biological sex’ is an ideological construct that is coercively materialized over time. It is not a plain fact of the body, nor a static situation, but rather a process, by which regulatory norms materialize this ‘biological sex,’ and achieve this materialization by means of enforced and incessant repetition of these norms.”

“The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.”

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity. Now unless we are greatly mistaken the Reform of our day, known as the Women’s Movement, is essentially such an embodiment, if its pioneers could only realize it.
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“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”

“The major imperative is to think expansively to create a world that no longer has a need to rely on oppressive systems.”

“Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature.”

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”

“Among our people, there’s not any question about women being strong ― even stronger than men ― they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don’t have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do.”

“Women must now find a language of their own identity and build a free feminine subjectivity. Only then will it be possible for men and women to enter into a relationship with one another.”

“The voices of our grandmothers are silenced by most of the written history of our people.”

“Rather than seeking stark divisions between approaches or themes within feminism, perhaps we should instead look for the many possibilities for productive coalitions.”

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”