Feminist Quotes - Page 24

• Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspirational, Motivational, Anger

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• Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Hero, Writing

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

  Beth Ditto

  Christian, Mom, Teenage

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• I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Grateful, Idols

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• I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.

  Beth Ditto

  Children, Singers, Incredibles

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• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

  Beth Ditto

  Accepting, Feels, Politically Correct

  'Ask me anything!' by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  Beth Ditto

  Artist, Oregon, Perfect

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  Vera Farmiga

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

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• And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Statistics, Way

  Interview with J. Steven Svobod, www.warrenfarrell.org.

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• A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

  Jane Fonda

  Spring, Men, Feminism

  Quoted in Daily Mail (London), 13 Sept. 1989

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• I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Feminism

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• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Photography, Believe, Equality

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• I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

  Christine Gregoire

  Mean, Heart, Rights

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• Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other...

  Christine Gregoire

  Educational, Political, Challenges

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Artist, Important, Veins

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

  Hugh Hefner

  Christian, Wings, Bother

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• I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Animal, Giving

  "The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2007.

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• As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Mother, Son, Ideas

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

  Joan Jett

  Sense Of Humor, Easier

  "The Runaways". Interview With Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. March 19, 2010.

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  If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sex, Pregnancy, Men

  Quoted in Ms., Mar. 1973

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• The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

  Annie Lennox

  Inspired, Persons, Mines

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• I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

  Doris Lessing

  Character, Thinking, Done

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• I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

  Doris Lessing

  Active, Has Beens

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