Feminist Quotes - Page 33

• The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

  Nancy Hartsock

  Historical, Materialism, Standpoint

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• The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination.

  Nancy Hartsock

  Class, Understanding, Historical

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• I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Reality, African American, Black

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• The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Our World, Views

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• I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

  Mordecai Richler

  Games, Why Not, Pot

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• I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Writing, Isms

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• Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, People, Fearless

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Fighting, People

  "Donatella Versace: 'How do I keep young? I sleep every night in the freezer!'". Interview with Lisa Armstrong, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2012.

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• For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art, poetry, and music. As that kind of artist, I can do anything. I can say anything. It's about self-expression. It knows no package - there's no such thing. That's what being an artist is.

  Laura Nyro

  Art, Expression, Self

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• I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

  Susie Bright

  Feminism, Liberation, Active

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Sex, Men, Wish

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.

  Matthew Chapman

  Believe, Feminism, Finals

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• I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

  Heather Donahue

  People, Who Cares, Witch

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• I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

  Jenna Jameson

  Trying, Hardest

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

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• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  Justin Sane

  War, Rights, Parent

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Book, Pride, People

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Feminism, Sense Of Humor, Consciousness

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• A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Modesty, Being A Woman, Feminine

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• There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

  Catherine Marshall

  Girl, Danger, Ends

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• Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Time, Special, Want

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• You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Perfect, Stifling

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• Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

  Josh McDowell

  Tolerance, Christ, Homosexual

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• I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought "legal" child killing to America. I was persuaded by feminist attorneys to lie; to say that I was raped, and needed an abortion. It was all a lie.

  Norma McCorvey

  Children, Lying, America

  "The Legacy of Jane Roe and the Landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Case That Changed America" by Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. February 20, 2017.

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