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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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• I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Looks, World, Way

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Storyteller". Interview with Janell Hobson, msmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

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• We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Motivational, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

  Neil LaBute

  Men, Feminism, Firsts

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• There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

  Jessica Lange

  Thinking, Myth, Can Do

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• I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

  Kenny Loggins

  Heart, Thinking, Feminism

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

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• When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Women, Doubt, Feminism

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• You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• ...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Males, Violence

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

  Joan Baez

  Women, Giving, Competition

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• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  Amy Poehler

  Strong Women, Badass, Powerful

  "Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

  Jerry Falwell

  Hate, Home, Men

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• We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Stress

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• Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

  Bjork

  Age, Old Age

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

  Camille Paglia

  Vegetables, Feminism, Neurosis

  1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. CollectedinVamps andTramps (1994).

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• It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

  Claudette Colbert

  Feminism, Matter, Faces

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• 'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

  Marilyn French

  Hate, Feminism, Doe

  The Women's Room ch. 1 (1977)

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• I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Women Strength

  'Woman of the Year' Acceptance Speech, Billboard Women in Music event, New York, www.billboard.com. November 30, 2012.

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• How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Jobs, Husband, Independent

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• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  Aaron Allston

  Believe, People, Feminism

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• I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

  Isabel Allende

  Catholic, Age, World

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• Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  Pat Robertson

  Husband, Children, Women

  "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

  Linda Gordon

  Nuclear Families, Revolutionary, Break

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• If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.

  Mary Daly

  Thinking, Males, Population

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