Feminism Quotes - Page 39

Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

Rumi

Sweet, Fire, Lasts

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Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

Susan B. Anthony

Independent, Men, Phases

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My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

Kathleen Hanna

Mom, Dad, Stupid

Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

Men, Thinking, Long

Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

Susan B. Anthony

Mean, Inability, World

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Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Dennis Prager

Pool, Happy Woman

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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Madeleine Albright

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Gloria Steinem

Inspirational, Unique, Heredity And Environment

Source: bigthink.com

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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Camille Paglia

Dog, Sex, Vacation

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.

Laverne Cox

Moving, Mean, Men

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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Gloria Steinem

Race, Radical Feminism, Feminist

"Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

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When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

S. E. Cupp

Political, Decision, Movement

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I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

Rush Limbaugh

Stupid, Movement, Hateful

"Limbaugh: Miss America Contestants Know More About Politics Than Elected Officials". www.newsbusters.org. February 3, 2010.

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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Catharine MacKinnon

Government, Goal, Feminist

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Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

Frances Perkins

Mean, Feminist, Women Empowerment

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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

Donna J. Haraway

Rhetorical Strategies, Play, Political

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The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

Camille Paglia

Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

David Ben-Gurion

Freedom, Democracy, Criticism

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I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

Kathleen Hanna

Growing Up, Men, Goal

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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Callie Khouri

Thinking, Political, Ideology

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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

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She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

Allison Williams

Inspirational, Empowering, Firsts

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I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

Ellen Page

Powerful, People, Feminist

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It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

Lena Dunham

Mom, Feminist, World

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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Camille Paglia

Pills, Birth Control, Patriarchy

Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

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