28 Inspiring – We Should All Be Feminists Quotes to Empower Women

Feminism is an ideology that supports women’s rights based on the equality of the sexes, and the people who follow this ideology are called feminists. 

This was the simple definition of feminism! 

But there is a book that has explained the definition of feminism for the 21st century in approx 64 pages. 

We Should All Be Feminists is written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and this book is an essay that describes the term feminism for the 21st century. 

Also, you can consider this book a written version of Adichie’s 2012 TEDx talk, delivered at TEDx Euston in London. 

After gaining rapid popularity in the TEDx Talk, Adichie published it in a book format. 

Anyway, we are heading over to read a few quotes from we should all be feminist.

After reading the quotes, if you feel like reading the whole book.- Hit that Buy Button.

Let’s start; we should all be feminists quotes…

List of 20 Hand-Picked We Should All Be Feminists Quotes

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“You know, you’re a feminist.” It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone—the same tone with which a person would say, “You’re a supporter of terrorism.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“These are little things but sometimes it’s the little things that sting the most.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“We raise girls to see each other as competitors—not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing—but for the attention of men.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what a woman is more likely to do.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?” This type of question is a way of silencing a person’s specific experiences.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“There are slightly more women than men in the world—52 percent of the world’s population is female—but most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Why should a woman’s success be a threat to a man?”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“We use the word “respect” to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

Wrapping Up

Did you also feel the problems and pain of females while reading these quotes? Well, that’s obvious. Anyways, If you like these We Should All Be Feminists Quotes then don’t forget to share these with your reader and feminist friends.