Feminism Quotes - Page 24

• I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.

  A.M. Homes

  Husband, Father, Thinking

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.102, Granta Books

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• There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry, and I think that's really important for people in the industry and for young girls and guys to see. It should become universal. It's really about the other people understanding that everybody's equal and that women are equally as valid creatives, businesswomen, powerhouses...whatever you want to call them.

  Charli XCX

  Girl, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that girls were (are) heavily pressured to become. The unselfish or Self-less woman was (is) seen as ideal. The realization and articulation that the cultural ideal of the perfect woman was someone who had no sense of Self and was a key part of the angry energy that drove Feminism to its swift success.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Girl, People, Perfect

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Compassion, Generosity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic mushrooms. He made it seem like we were all shooting heroin into our eyeballs. But that's part of the whole '60s and what it represented: feminism and civil rights and trying to stop the war. Hopefully we're starting to see some of that optimism again, through the excitement around Barack Obama.

  Margot Kidder

  War, Optimism, Drug

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most men love women. Most men are intrigued and bedeviled by them. Most men spend their lives dreaming about women. It's the most natural, normal thing in the world to do, but here comes the left and the Democrat Party trying to politicize even male-female relationships by inculcating into them things like feminism, proper political behavior.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Party, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• That's what's always been such a curious thing to me about feminism. They never lost any power. However, when you start talking about this particular area of our population, you're talking about the politicized nature of our country where feminism dominates and all heterosexual men want women. And all men realize you've got to do certain things. If you want to get a woman who happens to be a feminist, then you better do and say, be certain things. Men have gone crazy trying to be what they think women want them to be, and that's men in Washington, gone crazy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Crazy, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Women are being told "you are future leaders." Meanwhile, we are more than our jobs. One reason Sex and the City was such an enormous hit is that it expressed something that feminism won't admit: we don't know what we want. We don't know if we want children or not.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Leader, Reason

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  Camille Paglia

  Long, Dissent

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said something like, "During dating, he was all about feminism. But now I have to ask him to help with the children, I have to ask him to do the dishes, and every time he does, it's like a favor. Where's the feminist I married?" That's theoretical feminism, not practical feminism. I don't think we're all where we need to be. I don't know if we will be in my lifetime. Life is imperfect. But interesting.

  Debra Monroe

  Children, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

  Annie Lennox

  Fashion, Powerful, Mean

  "Cosmo meets... Annie Lennox". Interview With Fiona Cowood, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political movement were being felt in suburban households. So many novels end with a marriage.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Feminist, Political, Novel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Dirty, Home, College

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Strong, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I wouldn't advocate for a feminism that's buttoned-up and divorced of the messiness of our real lives. Your feelings are your feelings, but you're not going to litigate your feelings about my body. The feminist ethics that I signed up for were respect for my bodily autonomy, that my experience is my experience, and that I'm an expert in my own life.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Real, Feminist, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Independent, Degrees

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.155, Lulu.com

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• But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

  Anna Quindlen

  Gentleman, Busy, Never Fear

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.122, Random House

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• In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don't both need to. ... What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else - or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon - find themselves more affirmed by society? Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism.

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Children, Father

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• BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

  Emma Watson

  Feminist, Research, Gender

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

  Janet Morris

  Pride, Men, Arrogance

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Frost

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

  Pearl Cleage

  Racism, Justice, Diversity

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• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.415

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• I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  God, Vision, Connections

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