Feminism Quotes - Page 22

• I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

  Agnes Varda

  Struggle, Speak, Wanted

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• This life is a war we are not yet
  winning for our daughters' children.
  Don't do your enemies' work for them.
  Finish your own.

  Marge Piercy

  Daughter, Perseverance, Children

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.115, Knopf

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• Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

  Nora Ephron

  Consciousness, Illusion, Intimacy

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.97, Vintage

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• I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her - in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Sex, Nice

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

  Camille Paglia

  Feminist, Suffering, Sound

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• I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, President, Get Up

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• Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.

  Camille Paglia

  Exercise, Feminist, Taught

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• I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Color, Issues, Feminist

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• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Ancient, Cliche

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Women, Needs, Kind

  "Feminism's Assumptions Upended" by Barbara Ehrenreich, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2004.

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• Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Kissing, Want

  "Emma Watson British GQ Cover Is Actress’ Sexiest Yet" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Good Life, Real

  Emma Watson @EmmaWatson, twitter.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don't know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn't really careful, that could be me. That my first kiss could be in somebody else's clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Reading, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Sexy, Kissing

  "The Bloom Of The Wallflower". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.wonderlandmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

  Emma Watson

  Strong, Men, Sensitive Man

  "Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too". UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign, New York, www.unwomen.org. September 20, 2014.

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• Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

  Emma Watson

  Men, Benefits

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

  Emma Watson

  Country, World, Gender Equality

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Thinking, Goal

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• We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Motivational, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Girl, Sex, Teaching

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.581, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Baby, Power, Long

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• I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

  Jane Rule

  Boys, Feminist, Grace

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

  Ralph Nader

  Wife, House, Feminist

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• It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beautiful, Character, Feminist

  "Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin".

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