Feminism Quotes - Page 15

• Does my new feminism make me look fat?

  Libba Bray

  Doe, Looks, Fats

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• You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

  Tina Fey

  Kids, Spinach, Brownies

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• I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.

  Teri Gender Bender

  Thinking, Feminist, Discrimination

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

  Beth Ditto

  Makeup, College, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Media, Land

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• What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Human Nature, Grievance

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  White, People, Focus

  "Ain't I a Woman?". Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.

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• I was living in the moment that feminism came out of, and I think it's only through the work that women are doing today that they are making out better than men. So it's important that you are a feminist in your mind but that you have an attitude sometimes like men.

  Franca Sozzani

  Attitude, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the films I've done recently, I've been learning a little more about the side of myself that enjoys being a light. I remember when I used to dress in all black and you'd say. "Just be pretty, hold your head up, be proud. Be a pleasant person and don't cover yourself so much with darkness, your need to be a little crazy." Now I have nothing against anything I've been in before, because I love all sides of me, but I have been experimenting more with that lovely woman side. In this age of feminism, I would hate for the whole gentlemen and ladies things to be lost.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hate, Crazy, Darkness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Fun, Live Life

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• The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

  Annie Lennox

  Taken, Men, Needs

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• The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Thinking, Use

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• Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

  Erica Jong

  Teaching, Pushing, Pleasure

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• I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Issues, Racism

  "A chat with the Author of "All About Love: New Visions"". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Internet, Problem

  "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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• Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Space, Underground Music

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• I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Feminist

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Issues, Achieve

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• A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

  Rachel Cusk

  People, Needs, Remains

  "Mum's the word". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

  Julie Burchill

  Kids, Men, Way

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Feminism means to me aquality, actually. Women having equal rights to every thing the male population have in all aspects. Whether that's socially, or within the household or in the workplace. I don't find it a difficult word but it does have a lot of baggage. There's still a lot of work to be done in various parts of the world and society. If you look at where a woman's place was a couple of generations ago, there's been a huge development and progression. And it's an important queston to keep bringing up.

  Edith Bowman

  Couple, Mean, Important

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. Women's rights is one aspect of it, it's not the end-all, but I also think that the women's issue is the strongest entry point that we've got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman's issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It's the fastest path that we've got to making change happen.

  Asra Nomani

  Wall, Islamic, Thinking

  "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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