Feminist Quotes - Page 3

• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.80, Crown Forum

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• Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

  Judy Chicago

  Husband, My Husband

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• It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

  Susie Bright

  Messages, Liberation

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• Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Writing, Locked

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• There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

  Julie Christie

  Film, Aspect, Bits

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• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  Betty Buckley

  Believe, Passion, Identity

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• I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

  Christine Lahti

  College, Careers, Political

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• People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

  Gretchen Mol

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Interview: Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. April 14, 2006.

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• Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

  Judith Butler

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

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• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  Rachel Hunter

  Thinking, Feminism, Sides

  "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Simple, Men, Choices

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• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  Education, War, Women

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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

  June Jordan

  Life, Happiness, Success

  1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Power, Men, Names

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Political, Today

  "50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know" by Susie Hodge, Quercus, (p. 270), September 29, 2011.

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• I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Home, Two

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• My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Mom, Sarcastic, Sunday

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• In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Choices, Intercourse, My Own

  "They took my body from me and used it" by Andrea Dworkin, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Social, Position

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Self, Expression, Violence

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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• I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Women, Smart, Giving

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