Compiled by Michael Flood, January 2002.

• Anti-violence (including men's anti-violence)
• General gender/sexism/feminist slogans
  • Abortion, reproductive rights
  • Pornography
  • Slogans re. marriage, family, housework
  • Other feminist slogans
• Masculinity slogans
• Sexuality slogans
  • Slogans about heterosexuality in particular
• Funny/interesting sayings by women

Anti-violence (including men’s anti-violence)

• Against violence against women

• Break the silence, on men’s violence.

• Disarm rapists - smash sexism

• End violence to women NOW

• Kill your rapist

• Men assault 1 in 4 women

• Mutual sex is better

• No sex without consent

• Prostitution is not a victimless crime.

• Prostitution is sold and bought rape.

• Rape is wrong

• Sex or Rape? The difference is Consent.

• Sex without consent is RAPE

• Some men break more than their girlfriends’ hearts.

• What part of NO don't you understand?

• Women reclaim the night

• Women unite. Take back the night.

• Men’s anti-violence slogans (from Men Against Sexual Assault)

• [Note that some of the above slogans could also be used here.]

• a) Ones that I especially like

• Men can stop rape

• Ask, listen, respect.

• No sex without consent

• Men get raped too

• How do you know if a woman wants to have sex? Ask, Listen, Respect.

• b) Other slogans — Also see general anti-violence slogans above

• [The prefix "Men: " would be unnecessary eg in a men’s anti-violence rally.]

• For a rape-free culture

• Men: Love, not shove

• Men: Pull it, don’t push it

• Women deserve better

• Take responsibility for ending rape

• Men: End the sex war. Call a truce

• Marriage is not a sex contract

• Being sensitive is not enough

• Because you know that violence is not okay

• Men: Take no for an answer

• Men are not born violent, men learn to be violent.

• Men: Be proud to be non-violent

• Real men don’t hit

• Men can change

• Men: Violence is a choice you don’t have to make.

General gender/sexism/feminist slogans

• "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what a feminist is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat" - Rebecca West, 1913

• A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life. - Virginia Woolf

• A woman without a man like a country without a government

• A woman without a man, is like a fish without a bicycle

• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

• Adam and Even

• Ain't no revolution without women

• Call me Ms

• Children are people too.

• Don’t call me girl.

• Don’t call me sweetie... It’s bad for your teeth.

• Don’t put me on a pedestal and then expect me to dust it.

• Elect women for a change.

• Equal rights are not special rights

• Ever wonder why god-centered religions make a woman responsible for messing up the world?

• Feh Mah Nist

• Feminism is the radical notion that WOMEN are people.

• Feminism spoken here

• God is just an abbreviation for Goddess

• Grrrl power!

• Grrrl power! No Spicy, Sporty, Scary shit

• Hit them where it hurts

• How about herstory for a change?

• I like to think of "men" as the diminutive of "women"

• I tried to contain myself, but I escaped.

• I was born a woman... I won’t be told how to become one.

• If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end - Maria Mies

• If you feel attacked by feminism it's probably a counter-attack

• Just say no (to marriage)

• Keep your fucking laws off my body!

• Listen to women for a change.

• Little girls made of sugar and spice grow up to be cheesecakes.

• Make a snow woman this winter

• Menstruate with pride

• My Goddess creamed your God

• Patriarchy fuck off!

• Penis envy is a phallussy.

• Raise boys and girls the same way.

• Riots not diets

• Sexism is a social disease.

• Sexism is neaderthal.

• Sexism: The original sin

• The best man for a job may be... a WOMAN.

• The birth of a boy who grows up to believe he's God is an everyday affair

• Towanda!

• When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s a tradition.

• When women start to act like human beings, they’re accused of trying to be men.

• Which of us is the opposite sex?

• Woman in labour keeps capital in power

• Women are being denied the rights every human being deserves. Educate and Activate.

• Women are watching you [with pair of eyes]

• Women make policy, not coffee.

• Women power

• "Feminism has fought no wars.  It has killed no opponents.  It has set up no concentration camps, staved 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 laws.  If someone says 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' I ask 'Why?  What's your problem?'"

• Dale Spender, For the Record:  The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge.

Abortion, reproductive rights

• Abortion on demand

• Abortion: A woman’s right to choose

• Every child a wanted child

• Guns don't kill people, "pro-lifers" with guns kill people

• I am not an incubator

• I asked God. She's pro-choice.

• I'm pro-choice and I shoot back

• It's simple Brad - either use condoms or beat it

• Keep abortion safe, free and legal.

• Keep men’s laws off women’s bodies

• Not the church, not the state, but a woman’s choice to procreate

• Pro-Child Pro-Choice

• The Pope's mother had no choice

Pornography

• Pornography degrades women

• Pornography is the fantasy, rape is the reality.

• Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice

• Porn tells lies about women

Slogans re. marriage, family, housework

• A woman’s lot is not a nappy one.

• An employed housewife gets two jobs for the price of one.

• Every mother is a working mother.

• It begins when you sink in his arms... It ends with your arms in his sink.

• Marriage is a fine institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Other feminist slogans

• A woman’s place is in the struggle

• Being fat is beautiful too

• For everyday feminine protection, carry a hand grenade.

• Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did: Only backwards and in high heels.

• He may have hairs on his chest — but sister, so does Lassie.

• I do not refer to myself as a housewife, because I did not marry a house.

• If they can put one man on the moon, why can’t they put them all there?

• If you want a 'chick’ or a 'bird’, go buy an egg.

• It’s a man’s world, and the end is nigh.

• It’s not easy being a sex symbol.

• Only the woman whose neck is bent will bear the oppressor’s heel

• Seduction is the art of genital persuasion

• Telepathising woman seeks other for radio-jamming the patriarchy

• There is only one thing that men do better than women... Rape.

• What would the world be like without men? Full of fat, happy women.

• Woman was born free, but everywhere she is in chains.

• Women! Get out from under

Masculinity slogans

• Big car ≠ big dick

• Manhood is a fiction

• Men of quality respect women’s equality.

• Men: Resist the patriarchy.

• Real men cry

• Some of my best friends are white middle-class men.

Sexuality slogans

• ACDC

• Adam & Steve

• Amy & Eve

• Biphobia (crossed out)

• BIs will do BIs

• Bisexual (two way road sign)

• Bisexual by luck, Queer by choice

• Bottom

• Boys will do Boys

• Butch

• Byke

• Catamite

• CAUTION : Icepick wielding bisexual fag dyke

• Clitsucking Dyke

• Clitsucking Faggot

• Closets are for clothes

• Cocksucking Dyke

• Cocksucking Faggot

• Come over to the dyke side.

• Condom conoisseur

• Die guppy scum!

• Does Doing a Muppet Count as Bestiality?

• Don't assume I'm straight and I won't assume you're an asshole

• Dyke

• Dykes rule - resist homophobia smash sexism

• Fag

• Fellatio is not an opera

• Female at birth, Womyn by choice

• Femme

• Fine! I don't believe you exist either

• Fit to be Tied

• Freedom Fyghter (w/ lesbian separatist symbol)

• Fuck your gender

• Gay and proud

• Girls will do girls

• God hates Phelps

• Heterosexuality isn't Normal, just common - Derek Jarman

• Homophobia (crossed out)

• How dare you assume I’m heterosexual.

• I crossdress my Barbies

• I Fuck Anything that Moves - So Don't Fidget

• I fuck men too

• I fuck women too

• I got kicked out of girlguides for eating a Brownie

• I have slept with everyone in this city (recycle sign)

• I may not be cheap but I am on special this week

• I need someone really bad... are you really bad?

• I won't assume you're gay if you don't assume I'm straight

• If God had meant men to have sex with each other, he would have put a hole in the middle of their bottoms.

• If space and time are curved where do all of the straight people come from?

• I'm not gay but my boyfriend is

• I'm not gay but my girlfriend is

• I'm not gay but my teletubbies are

• I'm not gay but my teletubby is

• I'm straight but it may just be a phase

• It ain't pretty being easy

• Just say no (to marriage)

• Kinsey 2.1 and open to suggestions

• Kinsey 3.5 and counting

• Kinsey had a limited imagination

• L.A.B.I.A. Lesbians Against Boys Invading Anything

• Lesbian rights are women’s rights.

• Lesbians are everywhere.

• Let's get one thing straight - I'm not!

• Live a little — Have an orgasm

• Love makes a family (w/ pink triangle as the V in "love")

• Love sees no gender

• Male at birth, a man by choice

• Militant homosexual

• Nobody knows I fuck men

• Nobody knows I fuck women

• Nobody Knows I'm a Cyberporn star

• Nobody Knows I'm a Dyke

• Nobody Knows I'm a Fag

• Nobody Knows I'm a Switch-hitter

• Nobody knows I'm Bi

• Nobody Knows I'm Bisexual

• Nobody Knows I'm Gay

• One in ten saviours is gay

• One nice thing about masturbation — You don’t have to look your best.

• Pink sheep of the family

• Practicing homosexual

• Practicing homosexual: why stop before you're perfect?

• Queens Will Not be Pawns - Derek Jarman

• Queer

• Queer by choice

• Queer kids rule!

• Queers Bash Back

• Queers Who Seek Equality With Straights Lack Ambition

• Remember Matthew Shepard - Fight homophobia

• Riots not diets - fat dykes are revolting

• Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman

• That's Doctor Dyke to you!

• That's Doctor Faggot to you!

• That's Mister Faggot to you!

• That's Ms. Dyke to you!

• Too fast to live, too young to die... and definitely bi! (w/picture of James Dean)

• Too Shallow To Love, Too Jaded to Care

• Top

• Transdyke

• Transfag

• Transphobia (crossed out)

• Try celibacy — Don’t fuck if it bores you.

• Two of a Kind beats a Straight

• Versatile

• Wearing Ribbons is Not Enough

• We're Here We're Queer We Riot (w/ queer anarchist symbol)

• When life's a drag wear a dress

Slogans about heterosexuality in particular

• I'm straight but it may just be a phase

• Straight but not narrow

• What made you heterosexual?

• When did you come out as heterosexual?

• Heterosexual Mardi Gras, 364 days of the year

Funny/interesting sayings by women

• A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. -- Carrie
• A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. -- Rhonda Hansome
• Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. -- Maryon Pearson
• Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. -- Jennifer Unlimited
• Facts are theory laden; theories are value laden; values are history laden. -- Donna J. Haraway
• He tricked me into marrying him. He told me he was pregnant. -- Carol Leifer
• I speak out of direct and particular anger at an academic conference, and a white woman says, Tell me how you feel but don't say it too harshly or I cannot hear you. -- Audre Lorde
• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch. -- Gilda Radner
• I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job. – Roseanne Barr
• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -- Gloria Steinem
• I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. -- Dolly Parton
• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. -- Marie Corelli
• I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. -- Janette Barber
• I think -- therefore I’m single. -- Lizz Winstead
• I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -- Jennifer Unlimited
• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels GOOD for 36 hours. -- Rita Rudner
• I was on a date recently, and the guy took me horseback riding. That was kind of fun, until we ran out of quarters. -- Susie Loucks
• I would love to speak a foreign language, but I can’t. So I grew hair under my arms instead. -- Sue Kolinsky
• I’m not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. -- Roseanne Barr
• I’m not offended by dumb blonde jokes, because I know I’m not dumb... and I also know that I’m not blonde. -- Dolly Parton
• In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. -- Margaret Thatcher
• I’ve been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. -- Wendy Liebman
• If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. -- Sue Grafton
• If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. -- Margaret Atwood
• If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? -- Linda Ellerbee
• If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. -- Catherine Aird
• Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. -- Laurie Kuslansky
• My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. -- Rita Rudner
• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first is hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -- Erma Bombeck
• Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. -- Baroness Edith Summerskill
• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma Bombeck
• Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -- Eleanor Roosevelt .
• Old age ain't no place for sissies. -- Bette Davis
• Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. -- Bella Abzug
• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem
• Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn
• The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off. – Gloria Steinem
• Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. -- Caryn Leschen
• This guy says, I’m perfect for you, 'cause I’m a cross between a macho and a sensitive man. I said, Oh, a gay trucker? -- Judy Tenuta
• Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton
• When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. -- Elayne Boosler
• Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. -- Jan King
• Women are like tea bags; they don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
• You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman?  It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. -- Geri Jewell
• You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. -- Erica Jong