Feminist Quotes - Page 32

• The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Prejudice, World

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• Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Class, Differences

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Opposites, Desire, Homosexual

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• I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Impact, Feminism

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• I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

  Clifford Geertz

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

  Reba Hurn

  Running, Race, Qualified

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• Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Believe, Years, Political

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• In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Overcoming, Prejudice, Handicaps

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• Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Sex, Never Forget, Emphasis

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• We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Accepting

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• In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

  Carolyn R. Dimmick

  Together, Lawyer, Organized

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• It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

  Christine Gregoire

  Responsibility

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

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• Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Girlfriend, Looks, Ifs

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• When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sports, Men, Nagging

  "Feminists Still on the Warpath to Get Their Man". humanevents.com. February 15, 2005.

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• The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Self, Kind, Cyborg

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• I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Fun, Radical Feminism, Kind

  "Dworkin on Dworkin," an interview originally published in Off Our Backs, reprinted in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed Ed. by Renate Klein and Diane Bell,

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• Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Suffering, Flawless

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• Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

  Kathleen Parker

  Pregnancy, Equality, Men

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• There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Growing Up, Real

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• I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

  Caitlin Moran

  Reading, Rising, Rise Of China

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• It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Organization, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

  Todd Haynes

  Men, Thinking, Creative

  Todd Haynes (2007). “Far From Heaven, Safe, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Three Screenplays”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

  Carla Bruni

  Needs, Generations, My Generation

  "Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2013.

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