Feminism Quotes - Page 16

• LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the values that affirm nontraditional relationships, that affirm feminism, come from abroad. If you've established - and this isn't up for discussion - that foreign agents are bad, and foreign influence is bad, and the West is our enemy, then there's no better expression of the West's influence than gays and lesbians.

  Masha Gessen

  Gay, People, Doubt

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• Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

  Tori Amos

  Powerful, Believe, Order

  "This much I know: Tori Amos" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

  Annie Lennox

  Issues, Goal, Zeitgeist

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• I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

  Annie Lennox

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  "Annie Lennox: 'The world has become more sexualised'". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the things they believe in. I wants to show young women that while feminists of the past did incredible work and that while the relative equality we experience now is due to their hard work, we still have a ways to go. We still have to fight for our rights and be vigilant in terms of keeping the rights we do have.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Believe, Hard Work, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to identify with feminism by people who clearly don't understand what I value and why I identify as a feminist. Ultimately, I'm less concerned with whether or not people identify as feminist and am more concerned with whether or not people understand what feminism is. If they don't want to identify as a feminist that's fine. I respect people's decision to identify any way they want and expect that same respect in return, although I don't always get it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  People, Feminist, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I actually felt like college was a much better and more comfortable environment for me than high school was. I think that can largely be attributed to the fact that I go to Barnard, which is a women's college that promotes women's leadership, a strong community and independence which are all things I obviously value. Before I got to school I think I expected most women there to identify as feminist, which I found wasn't necessarily the case, but I loved that I was able to have really intelligent and stimulating conversations with women about feminism no matter how they identified.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Strong, School, Intelligent

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think magazines like Glamour have the ability to have a great impact. Glamour has the ability to expose them to things like feminism that they may not be well acquainted with. In fact, Glamour has done that in the past - when I was in eighth grade I read an article in Glamour magazine about female feticide and infanticide that actually sparked my entire interest in feminism. I hate it when some feminists say we should get rid of beauty and fashion magazines - I think there's room in feminism for fashion, for fun, for talking about sex and friendships and relationships, etc.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Fashion, Fun, Hate

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In terms of feminism, I would just ask young women to keep an open mind about it and try to learn about it before they write it off or believe the negative stereotypes that surround it. Feminism can help you on a personal level, it can offer you an incredible community of brilliant and impassioned people, and can change the way you see the world if you just open yourself up to it. I think that goes for all causes as well.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sex workers are the last women police stand in to protect. Sex workers are the last people that room is made for in many ways. You get a different kind of feminism if you put people at the margins at the center. It's a recently resonant lesson, but black feminists have been saying this for decades. Now when I talk to people engaged in sex workers' rights advocacy and people who identify as intersectional feminists, this is the air they breathe. We can't just make feminism about improving the lives of all women. Because there is no such thing as all women and universal female experience.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  People, Feminist, Police

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital about that exchange. I think I'd only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I'm newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy.

  Maggie Nelson

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Needs, Hogwash

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

  Michel Onfray

  Atheist, Philosophy, Writing

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• My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

  Stevie Nicks

  Husband, Generations, Chicks

  "Stevie Nicks, the Fairy Godmother of Rock". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

  Toni Morrison

  Broken Heart, Running, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Opportunity, Play, Trying

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• It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Lying, Looks

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• I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Good Friend, Views, California

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, p. 193, 1992.

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• I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Gay, Population

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

  Annie Lennox

  Country, Hate, Men

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• Men tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Welcome

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview With Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You got a Lewinsky, it isn't sex. And sexual harassment, you know what it used to be? All you had to have for sexual harassment was for a superior in your office to use his power to have his way with you, no matter whether you wanted it or not. Now that's out the window. Because we can't, of course, have Bill Clinton said to have engaged in sexual harassment. No way. Not gonna happen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Office, Use

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender politics and there [isn't] anything particularly progressive about it. That's what is baffling. You've got conservatives acting like liberals touting free speech and due process.

  Laura Kipnis

  Thinking, Wings, Acting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Love women! I hate feminism. "Hate" may be an accurate word, but too strong to use. I strongly oppose feminism because it's nothing but liberalism, and it's doing nothing to actually advance women. It's doing just the exact opposite.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Hate, Opposites

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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