Feminist Quotes - Page 34

• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Writing, Proud

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• So this is feminist corner then.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Corners

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• Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

  Lena Dunham

  Play, Long, Mind

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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• Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.

  Lena Dunham

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

  JFL42 Comedy Festival in Toronto, www.harpersbazaar.com. Fall 2014.

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• Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

  Lena Dunham

  Giving, Choices, Might

  "5 Great Insights from Lena Dunham’s Recent Book Tour" by Louis Virtel, uproxx.com. October 02, 2014.

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• On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Dirty, Men

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• When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

  Peter Kreeft

  Saint, Pupils

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• I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Kaya Scodelario Talks Bonding with the Cast, Fan Reaction to the Film, the End of SKINS, and More on the Set of THE MAZE RUNNER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2014.

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• Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

  Bobby Riggs

  Saboteurs, Can Do

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• Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'

  Maria Shriver

  Beautiful, Girl, Strong

  "Maria Shriver Takes on Alzheimer’s Advocacy". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

  Deborah Tannen

  Morning, Character, Men

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• I hope I just show women that its OK to inhabit your own body. Im not a rah-rah feminist. But its important to me that people see you can be an athlete and be strong-and also be a girl.

  Gabrielle

  Girl, Strong, Athlete

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• PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Unique, Erotic, Environmental

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• Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women

  Reynolds Price

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  Warren Farrell

  Confused, Opportunity, Outcomes

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• I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

  Jacqueline Rose

  Nice, Hair, Clothes

  "Jacqueline Rose: a life in writing" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

  Kristen Ashley

  Men, Care, Down And

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• As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

  Bell Hooks

  Sisterhood, Race, Class

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.27, Routledge

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• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Diane Wakoski

  Power, Political, Literature

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• If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

  Aziz Ansari

  Believe, Men, Rights

  “Marion Cotillard wants to fight for women’s rights, not ‘feminism’l by Caroline Siede, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2015.

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• My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Rights, Justice

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• Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Inspiring, Fighting, Men

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• Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

  Kristin Davis

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Girl

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.

  Martha Shelley

  Mets

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