Feminism Quotes - Page 10

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Confused, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

  Laurie Penny

  People, Reason, Stills

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• I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

  Alison Bechdel

  Years, Mainstream Culture, Starting

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• The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

  Pat Robertson

  Player, Keys, Chess

  "The 700 Club". TV series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Views, People, Different

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Real, Believe

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• We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.

  Stevie Nicks

  Hate, Rights, Opposites

  "Songs in the key of strife: the explosive force of musical conflict" by Joe Penhall, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2018.

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• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Dirty, Men, Thinking

  "Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade". Book by Matthew Rettenmund, October 15, 1996.

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• The way I view feminism — and I know there are a lot of different things going on — but, at its purest form, to me, it's a very positive, supportive, nurturing, empowerment thing. I mean, God, who isn't a feminist? If you don't think women are as good as men, you're not a good person. I like to think that most of the population of people worth being friends with are feminists, if that's what feminism means.

  Kat Dennings

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

  Jerry Falwell

  Philosophy, War, Biblical

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• I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Connections, Cry, Goddess

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Mother, Responsibility

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

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• Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

  Laura Bates

  Hate, Mean, High Heels

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• I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, People, Raw Materials

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

  Tucker Carlson

  War, Congratulations, Victory

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Names, Racism

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• Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

  Kate Clinton

  Feminist, Arcs, Posts

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.79, Bywater Books

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• I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Song, Art, Sex

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.263, UPNE

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• I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Scared

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"

  Amanda Palmer

  Jesus, Couple, Real

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.

  Amanda Palmer

  Men, Thinking, Bags

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

  Camille Paglia

  Block, Moving, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.

  Amanda Palmer

  One Direction, Guy, Firsts

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised its head. You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do? You go off to college. That's what she did. Why do you go? To meet your husband. That's what she did. She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Husband, College

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Activism, Obligation

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

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