Feminism Quotes - Page 30

• I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

  Judith Plaskow

  Feminist, Religion, World

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

  Sonia Johnson

  People, Eras, Break

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• continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Men, Tools, Use

  Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”

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• Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

  Katie Pavlich

  Modern, Victim

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• Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

  Florence King

  Spinsterhood

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pigs, Eyelashes, Style

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• Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

  Caitlin Moran

  Halt, Wells

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.12, Random House

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• We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Pride, Giving, Feminist

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• I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

  Caitlin Moran

  Creativity, Thinking, Rocks

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• Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Women, Rights, Law

  Letter to Susan B. Anthony, 14 June 1860, in T. Stanton and H. Stanton Blaher (eds.) 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton' (1922) vol. 2

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• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Feminist, Wish

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• Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

  Estelle Ramey

  Men, Feminist, Chains

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• I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

  Jerry Falwell

  Hate, Home, Men

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• Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

  Miranda Richardson

  Dirty, Dirty Words

  "Miranda Richardson: 'I hate our sneering attitude to success'". Interview With Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2013.

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• The revolution begins at home.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Home, Revolution

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• Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

  Gloria Steinem

  Motivational, Women, Feminist

  "Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

  Roxane Gay

  Fall, Names, People

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

  Roxane Gay

  Mean, People, Humanity

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Movement, Flawed

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers...and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rule book but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Strong, Badass

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• There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sex, Differences, Feminine

  Mother and Son ch. 10 (1955)

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• Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Coveting, Blind

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• It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Husband, Ideas, Helping

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• I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Self, Class, Doe

  "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism".

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• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Song, Lust

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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