Feminism Quotes - Page 29

• Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Husband, Islamic, Law

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

  Vivian Gornick

  Fog, Feelings, Married

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Gay, Mainstream Society, Rights

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

  Vivian Gornick

  Important, Culture, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Made, Century

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• You're not allowed to criticize Obama because of his race. And I thought feminism made us all the same, we're all equal. Everybody's a tough guy now, so why can't we criticize women? Hillary Clinton is a nasty woman.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Nasty, Tough

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Though women may appear equal in some ways, and though we definitely have accomplished a lot, the fact is one in one women will still experience sexual violence at some point in their lives; a mere 17 percent of the U.S. Senate is female; women still only make 77 cents for every man's dollar - and that's not even taking into consideration global issues like sex trafficking or honor killings. We still need feminism, it's just not as easy for people - especially people in an incredibly privileged country like America - to always see that.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Country, People, Honor

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Men, Feminist

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with Bell Hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

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• In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.

  Bell Hooks

  Determination, Struggle, Heart

  Source: espressostalinist.com

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• Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

  Lena Dunham

  Issues, Important, Female

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Feminist, Risk

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

  Bonnie Greer

  People, Kind, Humans

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• A lot of women seem to have a similar attitude, - 'I'm not a feminist' - and it gets wearying. What's wrong with being a feminist? I'm proud to be a feminist. It's been one of the most positive things in my life. It's one of the best traditions there is. It's admirable to be a feminist and to stand up for one's sex, to fight against inequality and injustice and to work for a better society.

  Mary Stott

  Sex, Attitude, Fighting

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• Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Resistance, Female, Movement

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

  Lucy Stone

  Men, Hair, Long

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• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Comfort, Haunting

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.32, University of Toronto Press

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• The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

  Grace Paley

  Mean, Order, Years

  Grace Paley (2014). “Just As I Thought”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Passion, Cuddling

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

  Susan Faludi

  Lists, Problem, Laundry

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

  Caitlin Moran

  Crush, Men, Hair

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• Woman's cause is one and universal.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Women, Causes, Universal

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• Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Powerful, Sisterhood, Metaphor

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.189, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  Patterns, Weaving, Garments

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (2004). “Beyond Patching: Faith and Feminism in the Catholic Church”, p.4, Paulist Press

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