Feminism Quotes - Page 13

• There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Choices, Individual, Ifs

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.

  Anne Applebaum

  Real, Marine, Technological Change

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Growing Up, Boys, House

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.

  Dar Williams

  Moving, Believe, Talking

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.

  Roxane Gay

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

  Lily Collins

  Character, Interesting, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.

  Paula Broadwell

  New York, Style, Mistress

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

  Denzel Washington

  Strong Women, Fall, Boards

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Hate, Justice, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

  Hozier

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Thinking, Intelligent

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

  Stephen Marche

  Horse, Kings, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

  Stephen Marche

  Reality, Echoes, Example

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.

  Donald Symons

  Boys, Men, Found

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• Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

  Debora Spar

  Opportunity, Expectations, Easy

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• A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  Practice, Realms

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• As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

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• To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a philosophy, it's just obvious. And the other is that you're actually fighting for women: you're promoting women and working towards the betterment of women.

  Stephen Marche

  Philosophy, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to be proud of. On the other hand, when you look at that recent Russian spousal abuse law or attacks on abortion in the U.S, you have to say that's a human rights issue, and feminism is just human rights.

  Stephen Marche

  Law, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, Pills, Machines

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• There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll see how it goes. I think that we lucked out in that all of the women who started writing at Feministing.com were really funny, and I don't think that's something people are used to seeing or hearing when they read feminism. You know, you think feminism and you kind of think academic, women's studies, dry, humorless; there are all of these stereotypes that go along with what feminist thought is and what feminist writing is.

  Jessica Valenti

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I talk about feminism and what I think the women's movement needs more of, it's not to detract from anything going on - I think everything going on is fantastic - but there's this missing element. I think we could learn from our detractors a little bit because I feel like they have a plan, a better understanding of things than we necessarily do. You can't change things if you don't understand the other people involved. And if you don't understand yourself, you'll never change.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Fighting, Men, Compassion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: progressive.org

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• Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, Hate, Smart

  Source: bigthink.com

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