Feminist Quotes - Page 7

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  It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  Madeleine Albright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Husband, Fall, Catholic

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

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• To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

  Tucker Carlson

  Cutting, Hair, Really Short

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• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Women, Memorable

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

  Audre Lorde

  New York, Circles, Literature

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence.

  Judith Levine

  Hate, Men, Desire

  Judith Levine (1993). “My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender”, Anchor Books

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Want Something, Iron

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• What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

  Cyndi Lauper

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

  Judy Chicago

  Morning, Women, Long

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• I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

  Emma Watson

  Hate, Fighting, Men

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

  Anne Hathaway

  Attitude, Teeth, Causes

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  Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Relationship, Women, Laughing

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, Feminism, Feminine

  "My Oedipus complex and other stories".

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• Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Issues, Feminism

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• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  Barbara Smith

  Black, Feminism, Female

  Barbara Smith (1983). “Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology”, p.36, Rutgers University Press

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• We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

  Robin Morgan

  Men, Misandry, Man Hating

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

  Susan Griffin

  Differences, Average, Radical Feminism

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Rape: The Politics of Consciousness”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Government, Goal, Feminism

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  Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

  Nora Ephron

  Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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• My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Parent, Political

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• Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

  Gloria Steinem

  Two, Choices, Feminism

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