Feminism Quotes - Page 36

• It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.

  Eve Ensler

  Mean, Feminist, Skins

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.

  Kola Boof

  Feminist

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• When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

  Julie Burchill

  Eye, Thinking, Saws

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• Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

  Robin Morgan

  Girl, Ethnicity, Age

  "International Women's Day: In defence of feminist dissent". www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Men, Behavior, Threatened

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Nastiness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Rights, Talking

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Moving, Economic Inequality, Neutrality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Queens, Tired, Reality

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• I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

  Keira Knightley

  Sex, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Keira Knightley: ‘Where Are The Female Stories?’" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2015.

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

  Jane Campion

  Feminist, Purpose, Clubs

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, Teenager, Luck

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• Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sex, Men, Dignity

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

  Gloria Steinem

  Community

  "Gloria Steinem On The Great Part Of Feminism:BBAACCSS1‘We Have Each Other’s Backs’" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

  Melanie Klein

  Yoga, Self, Mind

  Melanie Klein, Anna Guest-Jelley (2014). “Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body”, p.104, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

  Joan Hackett

  Mean, Rights, People

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• It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

  Adrienne Rich

  Integrity, Commitment, Issues

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• Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Jobs, Others Opinions, Opinion

  "Fucking While Feminist, With Jaclyn Friedman". Interview with Amanda Hess, www.washingtoncitypaper.com. March 26, 2010.

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• ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Feminist, Reform, Kind

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

  Marilyn French

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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