Feminist Quotes - Page 15

• In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Today, Being A Woman, Courtesy

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Authority, Theory

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.

  Lizzo

  Wise, School, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Views

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are - you know, anti-feminists - they're the same people who say that feminism is ruining the family, yet when it behooves them to, they'll say Sara Palin's a feminist - when all of a sudden it works in their favor.

  Jessica Valenti

  People, Feminism, Favors

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Thinking, Media

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

  Natalie Dormer

  Girl, Definitions, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hippie, Paris, San Francisco

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• Women are feminist by default.

  Caitlin Moran

  Default

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

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• You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

  Caitlin Moran

  Boys, Employment, World

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

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• I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Want, These Days

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Intervirw with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.

  Ani DiFranco

  Determination, Believe, Self

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• I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly, or you're angry, or you're not dateable [laughs], then you've just reduced the language by a whole concept.

  Ani DiFranco

  Dirty, Mean, Thinking

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, People, Persons

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Doors, Typical, Groups

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Feminism, Groups

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Husband, Years, Hobbies

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

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• Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between two people.

  John Pierrakos

  Unique, Bridges, Two

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• Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]

  Meera Menon

  Wall, Unique, Views

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

  Dolores Huerta

  Majority, Movement, Wonderful

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Girl, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

  David Attenborough

  Sides, Humanist

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mom, Jobs, Understanding

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

  Lizz Winstead

  Past, Rights, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A woman who pretends to be a feminist shouldn't be taking money from countries where women are stoned, where women are killed for adultery, where women can't drive, Hillary Clinton's taken hundreds of millions of dollars from those countries.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Taken, Dollars

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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