FROM FEMINIST.COM:

"In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist." —Gloria Steinem

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." —Louisa May Alcott

"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." —Susan B. Anthony

"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race." —Susan B. Anthony

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman." —Nancy Astor (British Politician)

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women." —Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)

"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one "less traveled by"—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth." — Rachel Carson

"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come." —Sandra Day O'Connor

"We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around." —Geraldine Ferraro (The first woman to be nominated as Vice President of the United States)

"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do." —Jane Fonda

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." — Margaret Fuller

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong." —Mother Jones

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." —Janis Joplin

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." —Helen Keller

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place." —Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." —Margaret Mead

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome." —Golda Meir

"Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade." — Constance Baker Motley (First Black Woman in the U.S. to become a Federal Judge)

"I think the key is for women not to set any limits."— Martina Navratilova

"People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me." —Princess Diana

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." —Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out."—Mary Steenburgen

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." —Gloria Steinem

"I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?" —Barbra Streisand

"We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home." —Rosalyn Sussman (Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist)

"You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled." —Tahanie (Native American)

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom." —Alice Walker

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." —Martha Washington

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." —Virginia Woolf

From other sources:

"Feminism is a recognition of the domination of men over women and attempts by women to end male privilege.... It is a theory, a method, and a practice which seeks to transform human relations." - Cynthia Orozco, writing in the anthology Chicano Voices: Intersections of Class, Race & Gender, 1993

"Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions.. for safety on the streets... for child care, for social welfare...for rape crisis centers, women's refuges, reforms in the law." (If someone says) 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' (I ask) 'Why? What's your problem?'" - Dale Spender, author of For the Record: The Making & Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, 1985

"We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride."
- Cybil Shepherd, feminist

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'" - Shirley Chisholm

"We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it." -Bella Abzug

"... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them..."
-Helene Cixous

"Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra." -Florence Kennedy

"My silences have not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." -Audre Lorde

"When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world, and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul - and not just individual strength, but collective understanding - to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard." -Adrienne Rich

"When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will acheive full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long." -Lya Sorano

"people, we are standing at ground zero
of the feminist revolution
yeah, it was an inside job
stoic and sly
one we're supposed to forget
and downplay and deny
but i think the time is nothing
if not nigh
to let the truth out
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."
-Ani DiFranco, from 'grand canyon' off of "Educated Guess"

"The future of rock belongs to women." -Kurt Cobain

"Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive." -Leslie McIntyre

"A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space." -Gloria Steinem

"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." -Audre Lorde

"I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand." -Marge Piercy

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." -Maya Angelou

"Some man designed this room I'm standing in. Another one built it with his own tools. But who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules." -Ani DiFranco

"Some chick says 'Thank you for saying all the things I never do' and I say 'The thanks I get is to take all the shit for you. It's nice that you listen it'd be nicer if you joined in as long as you play their game, girl, you're never going to win." -Ani DiFranco

"[Society] calls an angry woman unfeminine. Because anger takes the woman out of her earth mother role as bastion of peace and calm, out of her familial role as peace-maker, out of her political role as preserver of the status quo, out of her economic role as cheap labor, out of her social role as second-class citizen. It takes her out of roles altogether and makes her a person." -Susi Kaplow

"Feminism is the political theory of free all women - working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women, as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women. Anything less is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement." -Barbara Smith

"Radical feminism is called 'radical' because it is struggling to bring about really fundamental changes in society. We, in this segment of the movement, do not believe that the oppression of women will be ended by giving them a bigger piece of the pig, as Betty Friedan would have it. We believe that the pie itself is rotten." -Bonnie Kreps

"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -Clair Sargent

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." -Timothy Leary

"I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks." -Sarah Moore Grimke

"I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves." -Mary Wollstonecraft

"There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody." - Florence Kennedy

"The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor." -Wilma Scott Heide

"Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill." -Betty Friedan

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." -Author Unknown