Katha Pollitt Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

  Katha Pollitt

  Feminism, Broadway, Novel

• A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

  Katha Pollitt

  Men, Justice, Feminist

• For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

  Katha Pollitt

  Feminist, Feminism, Answers

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

• For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

  Katha Pollitt

  Long, People, Feminism

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

• One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

  Katha Pollitt

  Ideas, Feminism, Important

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