Feminist Quotes - Page 36

• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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• I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

  Christie Hefner

  People, Economy, Playboy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.118, Routledge

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• I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?

  Molly Ivins

  Inspiring, Mean, College

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• I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong Women, Mean, Opportunity

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Years, Class

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

  Louis C. K.

  Comedian, Enemy, Criticism

  "Yes, I Did Say That!", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.

  Theda Bara

  Heart, Vampire, Faces

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

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• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Negative, Connotation

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• The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, Heart, Self

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• A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

  Caitlin Moran

  Males, Evolution, Ends

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• The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Commitment, Gay, Loss

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Ugly, Enough

  "What Would Coco Do?". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2009.

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

  Gloria Allred

  Sense Of Humor

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• Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

  Mona Simpson

  Brother, Father, Men

  "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs". www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• [T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

  Camille Paglia

  Media, Humanity, Politics

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• The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Names, Organization, President

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• (T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

  Tammy Bruce

  Choices, Politics, Moved

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• What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man husband? The lack of a powerful father or spouse who could jump-start her 'feminist' career with money, contacts, and influence? That Idaho BA? The wink? The charisma and, indeed, sensuality so lacking in her angry critics?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Powerful, Husband, Father

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• Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

  Jessica Valenti

  Media, Voice, Amplify

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• To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Class, Connections, Way

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