Vivian Gornick Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Radical Feminism, Choices

• for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

  Vivian Gornick

  Self, Political, Feminism

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

  Vivian Gornick

  Feminism, Important, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

• What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

  Vivian Gornick

  Fog, Feelings, Feminism

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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