Feminist Quotes - Page 14

• I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.

  Gloria Steinem

  Beautiful, Girl, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

  Andrew Denton

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.

  Abigail Disney

  Taken, Lefties, Attacking Us

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.

  Nina Menkes

  Trying, Kind, Structure

  "We hope to hook a big fish, but we don't know what we might find". Interview with Mariko Tamaki, logger.believermag.com. June 16, 2014.

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• I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

  Kristina Schroder

  Environment, Biology, Gender

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Men, Three, He Man

  "Natalie Dormer on Feminism: 'It Just Means Liberation and Equality'" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. November 25, 2014.

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• I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Explains Why He’s A Feminist", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2014.

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• I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Humanist

  "Madonna on Stage & on the Record". TV Movie, April 22, 2003.

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• I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

  Laura Benanti

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are ready to look back and actually appreciate some of what came before. And then you really do have the entire movement that I'm just going to call feminist, because I am a feminist. I think the education of young girls and women about what came before has started and I think that the knowledge of Fanny is part of that.

  June Millington

  Girl, Thinking, Space

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

  Donna J. Haraway

  Mean, Objectivity

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• Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

  Henry Makow

  Powerful, Mean, Men

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• I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

  Erica Jong

  Feminism, Males, Body

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• One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

  Nancy Ruth

  Wine, Risk, Impossible

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• As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.

  Jacques Myard

  Sorry, Years, Australia

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

  Caroline Dries

  Character, Thinking, College

  Source: collider.com

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• Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
  I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no sense of humor who see sexism at every turn. They make men's testicles shrivel up to the size of peas, they detest the family and think all children should be deported or drowned.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Children, Hate, Selfish

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• Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Female, Characteristics

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• I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dirty, Ambition, Thinking

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• Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Mean, Fighting

  "Yousafzai The Observer How young heroines helped redefine girlhood as a state of strength" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.

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• I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Impact, Talking, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Reading, Circles, Ethics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Book, Facts, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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