Feminist Quotes - Page 19

• Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

  Deborah Kampmeier

  Political, Film, Paradigm

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Trying

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

  Andi Zeisler

  Feminist Movement, Capitalism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.

  Andi Zeisler

  Thinking, Easy, Scene

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate information and share resources, especially via social media.

  Andi Zeisler

  Powerful, People, Social Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Police, Dangerous

  "'Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too': Jessica Valenti on 'Sex Object'". Interview With Sara Nelson, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 09, 2016.

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• I think anyone who wants the social, political and economic equality for women can call themselves a feminist. It does get trickier, of course, when you see anti-woman politicians or pundits claiming the feminist label while working hard to dismantle feminist gains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Political, Politician

  "'Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too": Jessica Valenti on "Sex Object'". Interview With Sara Nelson, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2016.

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• The messaging campaign that stigmatized the term feminist definitely worked on me when I was a teenager. I always believed in equality, but there's such intense pressure to be cool and not alienate boys, to not be a pain in the ass  -  to not be "that kind of woman."

  Lindy West

  Pain, Teenager, Boys

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl raised her hand, and the rest of us just sat there. He basically just shamed us for the rest of the class   -   in a constructive way. He went around the room and said to each girl, "Why didn't you raise your hand? Feminism means men and women deserve the same rights, and that the balance in the world is currently tilted in men's favour.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, College

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People don't realize that when Iranians marched against the shah, their goal was not to have a religious government take over. Everybody marched against the shah. There were communists and feminists and student groups. It's very much like what's going on in the U.S. now, with people following Trump. It's not that they want Trump. They want a radical change, is really what people are saying. With the shah, people were just so sick of the corruption they said just get rid of him.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Religious, People, Sick

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.

  Zara Larsson

  Artist, Thinking, Speak

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Even though Star Wars is easily read as feminist for its time - and even for now, with Princess Leia's role - people wouldn't make a movie like that in 2016, where the guys are mostly the tough ones, and the women aren't in positions of authority.

  Cass Sunstein

  War, Princess, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think that "Gilmore Girls" did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all. The show made it cool to be a smart girl. That certainly wasn't happening at the time - you were surrounded by beauty shows and teen soap operas. "Gilmore Girls" felt very apart from everything else that was happening.

  Liza Weil

  Girl, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

  Jill Soloway

  Dream, People, Support

  Source: uproxx.com

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• So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, just the people who don't normally get marketed to, in some way I kinda hoped that if I could collect all of them, I could say, "Hey! Look over here! There are enough people who like my stuff." And it sorta has seemed to be true.

  Jill Soloway

  Gay, People, Enough

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.

  Teri Gender Bender

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.

  Teri Gender Bender

  Thinking, Feminism, Discrimination

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would love to say that I'm a humanist, but I think the word "feminist" still needs to exist to acknowledge that there's still a problem. It's a statement; we're not equal yet. There's still a fight to be fought.

  Erin Maya Darke

  Fighting, Thinking, Problem

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Obviously, the 'Glow' show is a real feminist story. I knew it would be about female empowerment, and that was really exciting to me. Having some distance on a period show, I think you can really delve into those kinds of political topics in an in-depth way, and a lot of that reverberates today.

  Alison Brie

  Real, Distance, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I would say any film can be called feminist that has female characters who have agency in their life, that are in charge of their fate or do important things or take up half the space. I would consider a film feminist, I don't care what it's about, but if the cast was gender balanced, where it would be just as likely that the boss or the best friend or whoever was female. It's really as simple as showing women being in charge of their destiny and giving female characters a voice.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Fate, Simple

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Hillary Clinton was urging voters to make history, but a lot of voters, particularly women, had trouble with her history. And she was portraying herself as a feminist, as a glass ceiling breaker, but, in fact, in the eyes of many women, especially women closer to Hillary Clinton's own age, she had gotten where she was primarily on her husband's coattails.

  Betsy McCaughey

  Eye, Age, Trouble

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The reality is that we do not live in a predominantly feminist or 'gender equal' world, and many Australian women are experiencing workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, online abuse or worse, or common forms of casual, everyday sexism. They find themselves dismissed, talked over, ignored or facing backlash for doing the same thing their male colleagues are doing.

  Tara Moss

  Reality, Abuse, Everyday

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am the dictionary definition of feminist in that I believe women are equal to men. People sometimes use the word for different meanings and it is important to understand that feminism at its core is really is just believing that everyone is equal and should have the same rights. We are all beautiful women, we are still in the fight for equal pay, and we don't need to fight each other.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Beautiful, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I consider myself to be a feminist. My hope and goal is that I'm going to raise two very strong independent women that won't need anybody, unless they chose that. I want them to be mistresses of their own destiny. But I don't judge people on the other end of that spectrum either.

  Audra McDonald

  Strong, Independent, Destiny

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Fighting, Men, Compassion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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