Example Sentences

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Feminists countered that it was not up to the state to "dictate to women if they should have children and when".

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Feminists have never used the phrase “believe all women,” which is a misogynist insult.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2025

The novelist's 2012 Ted Talk We Should All Be Feminists helped push her to greater prominence, and was even sampled by Beyoncé on her 2013 song Flawless.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025

Feminists have spent the past 150 years painstakingly chipping away at the laws that forced our subservience.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024

This right is indeed the only one for which the Feminists are struggling, and they struggle for those obscure reasons which lie at the root of our wish to live and to perpetuate the race.

From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel