Feminism Quotes - Page 11

• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Civilization, Abstract

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.26, Vintage

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• We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Husband, College, Men

  "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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• This is the burgeoning days of feminism. This is when the militant feminists are the feminism hormones are raging. They are excited. They are happy. This is a new day! They are through being plugged into these formulas where men run everything and you're in servitude to them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Men, New Day

  "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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• Her [Hillary Clinton's] husband is running around on her with everything that walks. He's having an affair with Gennifer Flowers, he's having an affair with... I forget the names, but they're legion. He's cheating on her frequently, and she knows about it and yet puts up with it and stays in Arkansas. Why? At the beginning of feminism, when this is exactly the kind of boorish behavior women are not gonna put up with anymore, no way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Cheating, Husband

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.

  Jill Stein

  Order, Feminist, Choices

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sleep, Thinking, Tonight

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

  Amy Richards

  Taken, Our Generation, Water

  Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

  Amy Richards

  Water, Sound, Fluoride

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• Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Media, Years, Today

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Warning, Safe

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• With feminism social media just opened up its boundaries even more. Now all these different tribes of women can connect with each other, and also find each other if they're not living in the same city, or even if they are but they're not friends with the same people!

  Petra Collins

  Media, Cities, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

  Ani DiFranco

  Concerned

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

  Pamela Anderson

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Exclusive: Pamela Anderson On Beauty, "Baywatch," And Feminism". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. April 16, 2013.

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• The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Genius, Hook

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Believe, Struggle, College

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Political, Definitions, Economic

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Rhetoric, Has Beens

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Views

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.

  Jessica Valenti

  Writing, Thinking, Video

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Way, Visible

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's this idea like feminism is humorless and humorless in a way that's like a whistleblower. Like you're going to - you're going to make sure that nobody has any fun. And that's not true at all. I think feminism allows me to do what I do, and I'm so grateful to the idea of it and grateful to all the women that came before.

  Margaret Cho

  Fun, Grateful, Thinking

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• Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

  Jessica Valenti

  People, Trying, Hard

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

  Jessa Crispin

  Men, Feels, Capitalism

  Source: therumpus.net

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