Feminism Quotes - Page 27

• What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. 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

  Military, Women, Needs

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• Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

  Clementine Ford

  Girl, Hurt, Women

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• That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Nihilism, Causes, Being A Woman

  Harvey Claflin Mansfield (2007). “Manliness”, p.147, Yale University Press

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• So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Peaceful, Desire

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.76, VM eBooks

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• At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages.

  Heather Hart

  Writing, Fate, Class

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• American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Self, Pie

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

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• I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Empowering

  "How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Women, Empowering

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

  Eva Cox

  Women, Differences, Needs

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• As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril. And I am not exaggerating. The modern era of feminism has done such great damage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

  Robert Bork

  Radical Feminism, Feminist, Western Culture

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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• When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Men, Choices

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• Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Believe, Men, Radical Feminism

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The modern era of feminism relies on a lot of accepted premises. The biggest one is that men are predators, that they're mean. In their natural state they are brutes, bullies, and that women are endangered at the slightest bit of temper or anger.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Men, Bully

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The stories I would hear from men who were going through divorces and in child custody battles, the lies their wives told about them being predators, that they had fondled or abused the children, and these guys didn't know what to do. It wasn't true. They had no idea how to combat it. And I said, "A large part of this is modern feminism. You've gotta understand it."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Lying, Divorce

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

  Lily Allen

  Conversation

  "Lily Allen Returns". ShortList Interview, www.shortlist.com.

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• How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Fighting, People

  "Donatella Versace: 'How do I keep young? I sleep every night in the freezer!'". Interview with Lisa Armstrong, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2012.

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• From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Generations

  "Feminism's global challenge: With one voice" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2011.

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• Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.

  Matthew Chapman

  Believe, Feminist, Finals

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• There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Giving Up, Problem, Wells

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  France

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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