Feminism Quotes - Page 12

• Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.

  David Edelstein

  War, Party, Men

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

  Zoe Bell

  Children, Posters

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Maybe it`s a great blow for feminism that we now have men mocking one another about their makeup. I mean, let`s - can we enjoy that? That`s kind of great.

  Chris Hayes

  Mean, Blow, Makeup

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Ugly, Way

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• The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

  Alison Assiter

  Fiction, Discourse, Postmodern

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Feminist, Groups

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?

  Lizz Winstead

  Jobs, Air, Creative Space

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.

  Michael Buble

  Kings, Kids, Boys

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

  Steve Coogan

  Voice, Way, Sides

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.

  Julie Burchill

  Sports, People, Islam

  "Music to the ears". www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

  Gloria Steinem

  Distance, Successful, Years

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad place. When feminism replaced biology with social construct, they started to say that everything about a human being was created by your environment or by your - by environmental cues as opposed to innate traits... Like you didn't achieve what you could get because it was your fault. They denied traits that are applied across all cultures. And that's where feminism went wrong is it denied biology and makes them look foolish.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dark, Culture, Looks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

  Erica Jong

  Independent, Thinking, Government

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

  Erica Jong

  People, Want, And Love

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.

  Ani DiFranco

  Party, House, Together

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

  Erica Jong

  Rights, Ideas, Path

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Humorous, Gay

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• Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Female, World

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Western Culture, Levels

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

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• Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

  Helene Cixous

  Ideas, Language, Speak

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• I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Taken, Osmosis, Essentials

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

  Michael Kimmel

  Believe, Men, Enough

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• I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Appreciation, Sex

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.24, Egmont UK

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• If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Uplifting, Destiny, Political

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Our World

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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