Feminist Quotes - Page 35

• A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

  Katha Pollitt

  Men, Justice, Feminism

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• When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Money, Jobs

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• Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Empires, Used, Projects

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• There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Buddhism, People

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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• I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspiration, Order, Guy

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 2014.

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• Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

  Leighton Meester

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Please

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find The Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Sex, Believe

  "Aniston was no 'Sex and the City' fan". Vogue Interview, www.today.com. November 13, 2008.

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• We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Teach, Womanhood

  "Beyonce: Gender equality is a myth" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

  Brit Marling

  Men, Salt, Feminine

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

  Meghan Trainor

  Meaningful, Love You, Opportunity

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

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• I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Struggle, Thinking, Students

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.243, Duke University Press

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• The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.

  Janice Raymond

  Powerful, Creativity, Self

  Janice G. Raymond (1980). “The transsexual empire”

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• Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Justice, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.71, Routledge

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• If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

  Amber Heard

  Different, Amber, Done

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• You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

  Sally Hawkins

  Thinking, Rights, World

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• Who laughs less than feminists?

  Tucker Carlson

  Laughing

  "Crossfire" with Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. May 26, 2004.

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• No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

  Lily Rabe

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

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• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  Camille

  Men, Voice, Debate

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• Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Color, Justice

  "A Note on Visibility in the Wake of 6 Trans Women’s Murders in 2015". janetmock.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Motherhood, People, Offensive

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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