Feminism Quotes - Page 34

• For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

  Katha Pollitt

  Long, People, Asking

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

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• When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Leader

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.

  Bridget Christie

  People, Needs, Need A Change

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• The personal is political.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Political, Politics

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

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• To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

  Amy Schumer

  Mean, Men, People

  "Amy Schumer Answers Your Questions About Sex, Comedy, and Feminism". Q&A with Readers, jezebel.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

  Megan Griffiths

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  "Strong Women". Interview with Julia Edelman, logger.believermag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.

  Antero Alli

  Crazy, Real, Yarn

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• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Volcanoes, Experience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.160, Grove Press

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• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

  Judith Thurman

  Fashion, Sisterhood, Long

  "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Hard Work, Color

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Running, Spiritual, Ghetto

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• The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Japan, Judging, Doe

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• The future of rock belongs to women.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks

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• Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Interesting, Men

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

  Bell Hooks

  Majority, Oppression, Silent

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

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  We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

  Sheryl Sandberg's Commencement Address Barnard College in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

  Gloria Steinem

  Reading, Feminist, Littles

  McCall's, Oct. 1970

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• Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

  Nancy Reagan

  Want, Ability, First Lady

  "Nancy Reagan's Inspiring Legacy for Women" by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

  Ronee Blakley

  Partisanship

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Battle, May

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• I don't know. I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Kissing, Thinking

  "Heeft Emma Watson een relatie met een Harry Potter-collega?" by De Webredactie, www.elle.com. July 10, 2015.

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• It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Games, Giving

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  Coco Chanel

  Motivational, Mother, Strong Women

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