Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Feminism

The Top Ten
1 Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. (P. J. O'Rourke)
2 Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that. (Milton Jones)
3 God made man and then said I can do better than that, and made woman. (Adela Rogers St. Johns, from Some Are Born Great)
4 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. (Rebecca West, from The Young Rebecca)
5 Like every good little feminist-in-training in the sixties, I burned my bra, and now it's the nineties and I realize Playtex had supported me better than any man I have ever known. (Susan Sweetzer)
6 Women go to so much trouble yet accept a man's pot belly, warts, bad breath, wind, stubble, baldness and ugliness. (Germaine Greer)
7 Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition. (Anonymous)
8 We can't reduce women to equality. Equality is a step down for most women. (Phyllis Schafly)
9 The suffragettes were triumphant. Woman's place was in the gaol. (Caryl Brahms)
10 I can't abide women smoking, unless they've been set fire to. (Richard Johnson, from Bleak Expectations)

Richard Johnson was just the actor, Mark Evans wrote the script.

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