Feminism Quotes - Page 3

• I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Stewardship

  1974 Quoted in the Observer,1 Dec.

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• When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.

  Christiane Northrup

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, Feminist, Poison

  "Failure of the feminists" by Paul Johnson, www.spectator.co.uk. March 12, 2011.

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• Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

  Estelle Freedman

  Men, Political, Understanding

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• Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Feminist, Literature, Venues

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• My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiring, Determination, Self

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• The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Mean, Practice, Issues

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• The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Memorable, Men, Discovery

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• Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Discovery, Blood, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1907). “Rosmersholm: A Drama”

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• It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.

  Geri Halliwell

  Needs, Burning, Celebration

  "A Venn Diagram of Hollywood's Confused Feminists" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

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• There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.123, Random House

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• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sad, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

  Emma Watson

  Men, Stereotype, Natural

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Men, Feminist

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• Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

  Liz Stanley

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Love, Voice, Giving

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• We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

  Eva Burrows

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Classic, Being A Woman

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

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• I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sadness, Mad, Choices

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.24, Anchor

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• We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Hard Work, Past

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2649, Delphi Classics

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• We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Stress

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• I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.

  Emma Watson

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Will Feminism Be Reborn? A Sign of Hope" by Kathleen Kelley Reardon, bigthink.com. 2017.

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