Feminist Quotes - Page 26

• The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

  Patti Smith

  Issues, Movement, Good Work

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Memorable, Trying

  Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

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• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Revolution, Combining

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

  Gloria Steinem

  Reading, Feminism, Littles

  McCall's, Oct. 1970

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• The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving On, People, Moved On

  "23 Ways Gloria Steinem Taught Us To Be Better Women" by Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Atheist, Jobs, Believe

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• For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Food, Deserving It, May

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

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• I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

  Shania Twain

  Men, Thinking, Differences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Growing Up, Real, Father

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.81, Anchor

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• I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Husband, Equal Pay, Names

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• It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

  Alice Walker

  Women, Famous Inspirational, Flower

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• I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

  Alice Walker

  Black, Doe, Needs

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• I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

  Emma Watson

  Taken, Thinking, Ideas

  "'Harry Potter' Actress Emma Watson Sick Of Having 'no Control' Over Her Life" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. June 13, 2011.

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• Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Women, Artist, Wish

  "Talking dirty". www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2001.

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• Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Puritan, I Can

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• I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Women, Artist, Thinking

  "Talking dirty". www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2001.

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• I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Insecure, Men, Thinking

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• I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

  Joss Whedon

  Hardcore, Raised

  "Joss Whedon On Shakespeare, Female Superheroes, And Feminism". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.newsweek.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Bad Ass

  "What I know about men". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Tests, Monopoly

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  Naomi Wolf

  Baby, War, Sadism

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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