Feminism Quotes - Page 17

• Feminism is something I think about more when I watch the film, Christine, rather than when I was actually doing it, to be honest with you. But I do think it functions as a sort of interesting feministic critique, because you are seeing a woman who's resolutely incapable of behaving like the kind of woman that's acceptable at the time. She doesn't know how to play the game by everyone else's rules, and it makes you realize that actually there were rules that were functioning for a woman to be a careerist.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Interesting, Honest

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• There were a few before me, there was a generation that started a little bit before me of women producers and Sherry Lansing, she was the first woman studio president, and she was really inspiring to me. I was inspired by other women in other fields, I was an adolescent in the 70s with the second wave feminism, and I got very inspired by that and felt like, you know what, there's no reason why I can't do this.

  Denise Di Novi

  President, Inspired, Like You

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• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

  Joan Baez

  Women, Giving, Feminist

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• Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

  Evelyn Cunningham

  Feminist, Groups, Association

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• Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Practice, Theory, Lesbianism

  Quoted in Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-OnWoman (1972). This saying, from a 1970 speech, is usually quoted, "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."

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• My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Political, Conviction, Radical

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• No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, Feminist, Feminine

  "My Oedipus complex and other stories".

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• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Husband, Eye

  Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”

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• I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

  June Diane Raphael

  Girl, School, Boys

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• I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
  I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
  'What does that mean?'
  'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.

  Robin Epstein

  Mom, Hate, Mean

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.83, Penguin

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• Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

  Debora Spar

  Life And Love, Lying, Responsibility

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• When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Misogyny, Criticize

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• Feminism without femininity is a sham.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Femininity

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• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

  Erica Jong

  Fashion, Passion, Feminist

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• I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

  Mary Harron

  Ridiculous, Film, Rejects

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Thinking, People, Danger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.

  Dave Sim

  Important, Individual, Dave

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• Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.

  Lorna Simpson

  Teenager, Reading, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

  Toshiko Kishida

  Women, Government, Words Of Wisdom

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• I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all know I'm a girl, I'm a woman, but it's difficult to figure out how to talk about it and express how important it is without beating it with a hammer and having it be, "So you're a girl in music! So you're a girl in music!" Yes, I'm a girl in music - can we just talk about something else?

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Voice, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Faces, Isolation, Abusers

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• The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.

  Laura Bates

  Sex, War, Reality

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• How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

  Homer

  Men, Feet, Feminist

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• Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Expression, Voice, Feminist

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