Feminist Quotes - Page 10

• My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiring, Determination, Self

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• We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.

  Harriet Taylor Mill

  Women, Rights, History

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Peace, Freedom, Tyrants

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

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• We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Success, Dream, Use It Or Lose It

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

  Louisa Lawson

  Women, Power, World

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• Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

  Vida Goldstein

  Love, Marriage, Women

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• Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

  Mina Loy

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.

  Helene Cixous

  Women, Writing, Self

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• Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  Ntozake Shange

  Women, African American, Alive

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman

  Jessica Valenti

  Hurt, Children, Women

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• Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

  Assia Djebar

  Fear, Writing, Novelists

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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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• If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.

  Iris Marion Young

  Thinking, Numbers, Racism

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• Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

  Wendy McElroy

  Believe, Voice, Voting

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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• To be a feminist is to be alive.

  Margaret Cho

  Bad Ass, Alive, Ass

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we're relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to - it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we're seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven't been educated about it or exposed to it. They don't know enough about it to identify with it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  College, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Equality, Heartless

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• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Uprising, Feminism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.2575, e-artnow

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• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Intelligent, Bridal Shower

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Skins, Citizens, Body

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