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• My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.

  Ani DiFranco

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

  Debora Spar

  Tv Shows, Ivy, League

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"

  Ani DiFranco

  War, Talking, Our World

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• I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Feminist, Awkward, Would Be

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• It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.

  Laura Mulvey

  Defeated, Flourishing, Sexism

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Believe, College, Media

  "Kathleen Hanna Talks THE PUNK SINGER, How the Documentary Came Together, Reliving Her Journey While Fighting Illness, and Commentary on Miley Cyrus". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 30, 2013.

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• The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart.

  Florence King

  Heart, Emotional, America

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

  Florence King

  Real, Women, Names

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

  Florence King

  Women, Mean, Rights

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• There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.

  Florence King

  Rivers, Feminist, Obscurity

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• The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Real, Giving, Empowering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Men, Thinking, Capacity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Long

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• Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.

  Henry Makow

  Class, Female, Roles

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• The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Pay

  "The Myth of Male Power". The Myth of Male Power, 1993.

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• There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

  Christina Stead

  Mind, Theory, Courses

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.491, Open Road Media

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• I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Hate, Gay

  Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Space, Feminist

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.95, Routledge

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• Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

  Carol Lee Flinders

  Fire, Doe, Spirituality

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• Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed the distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, manhating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy 'research'.

  Melanie Phillips

  Lying, Hate, Men

  "Demenised!". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 13, 2003.

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• My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

  Starhawk

  Challenges, Spirituality, Structure

  "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ, 1979.

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• I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.

  Laura Mulvey

  Teenager, Feminist, Progress

  Source: en.aup.nl

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