Feminist Quotes - Page 17

• The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

  Susan Faludi

  Makeup, Views, Ribbons

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.

  Susan Faludi

  Views, Generations, Gender

  "Dear Susan, I Have Some Interesting News for You…". Interview With Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2016.

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• I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist.

  Jose James

  Holiday, Artist, Rights

  Source: revive-music.com

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• I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Plus

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• Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Children, Men, Problem

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• I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable. You should be labeled if you're f-cking crazy.

  Michael Che

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the articulation of popular institutions in the community. I think it's terribly important for anarchists to do that because at this moment not very much is happening anywhere in North America.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, America, Issues

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion. It's a group of essays by mostly womanly scholars looking at Matthew's gospel through feminists' eyes - very exciting. It opens up all sorts of things that I've never thought about.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Eye, School

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.

  Toni Morrison

  Sex, Battle, Generations

  Source: wordmag.com

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• I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

  Hozier

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are huge amount of gaps that need to be addressed and progress needs to be made. Yeah I am a feminist, it is not a difficult thing to explain.

  Hozier

  Rights, Progress, Needs

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Understood, Civilized Society, Ultimate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Important, Advertising

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.

  Stephen Marche

  Males, Needs, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to be proud of. On the other hand, when you look at that recent Russian spousal abuse law or attacks on abortion in the U.S, you have to say that's a human rights issue, and feminism is just human rights.

  Stephen Marche

  Law, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.

  Stephen Marche

  Taken, Mean, Night

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Strong, Independent, Political

  Iowa State University Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• I don't know about calling yourself a feminist. I also, for me, it's difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion in this context. And I'm neither anti-male or pro- abortion, so.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Abortion, Males, Calling

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Risk, Feminism

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Coffee, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Allies, Losing, Force

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Done, Pessimistic, Pessimism

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Taming, Shrews, Causes

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Perspective, Use

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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