Feminism Quotes

• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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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 am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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• It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Responsibility, Purpose

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• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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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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• People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

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• Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

  Adrienne Rich

  Strong Women, Hard Work, Mean

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Two, Feminist

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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, Feminist, Neurosis

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

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• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminist, Dumb Things, Unattractive

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

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• Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Issues, Energy

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspiring, Equality, Men

  Equality Now Tribute Address, delivered 15 May 2006, Men on the Front Lines Honoree

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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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• Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  Betty Buckley

  Bridges, Rallying Point, Giving

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

  Cyndi Lauper

  Hate, Mean, Men

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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, Feminist

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• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  Bella Abzug

  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

  Susan Faludi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminist, Firsts

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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