Feminism Quotes - Page 32

• But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Running, Passion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.148, Anchor

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• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Years, Feminist

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• We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

  Bella Abzug

  Done, World, Pairs

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• Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

  Dennis Prager

  Home, Choices, Feminist

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• I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Brave, Trying

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• Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Home, Ambition

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Only when the problem is gone will we get rid of the word 'feminism'. But I doubt that will happen in my lifetime

  Caroline Criado-Perez

  Doubt, Gone, Problem

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• Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

  Caroline Criado-Perez

  Names, Needs, Problem

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• I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.

  Scheana Marie

  Girl, Feminist, Empowerment

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?

  Margaret Cho

  Grateful, Fighting, Rights

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

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• I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Blogging, Internet

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

  Julianna Baggott

  Reading, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Social Pressure, Kind

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Silly, Winning

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Pits, Mimicking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

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• It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Groups, Way, Consciousness

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• Abortion-centered feminism is dead.

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Abortion

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• I don't have this sort of checklist of things that have to be done, andif they're not checked, then I've failed some part of my feminism or my being a woman or my worth and my value as a woman because I haven't birthed a child. I've birthed a lot of things, and I feel like I've mothered many things. And I don't feel like it's fair to put that pressure on people.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Children, People, Done

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• You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

  Petra Collins

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

  Jessica Valenti

  Writing, Choices, Political

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• Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

  Qiu Jin

  Country, Men, Two

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• As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

  Stephen Holden

  Pride, Games, Two

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