Feminism Quotes - Page 14

• There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Views, People, Different

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Connections, Cry, Goddess

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Verbs, Activity, Engaged

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

  Homer

  Men, Feet, Feminist

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• Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Expression, Voice, Feminist

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• It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.

  Zadie Smith

  Home, Air, Shoes

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than other women who think: Oh, goodness, well, if I let the lid off, where would we be?

  Claire Messud

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "Unacceptable Anger From 'The Woman Upstairs'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. May 19, 2013.

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• Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Feminist, Oppressed

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• I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.

  Ellen Page

  Hate, Dirty, Destiny

  "I don't want to sound like a piece of poop, but". Interview with Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

  Tucker Carlson

  War, Congratulations, Victory

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• The way I view feminism — and I know there are a lot of different things going on — but, at its purest form, to me, it's a very positive, supportive, nurturing, empowerment thing. I mean, God, who isn't a feminist? If you don't think women are as good as men, you're not a good person. I like to think that most of the population of people worth being friends with are feminists, if that's what feminism means.

  Kat Dennings

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Dirty, Men, Thinking

  "Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade". Book by Matthew Rettenmund, October 15, 1996.

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• We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.

  Stevie Nicks

  Hate, Rights, Opposites

  "Songs in the key of strife: the explosive force of musical conflict" by Joe Penhall, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2018.

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• I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Real, Believe

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• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Confused, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things 
to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking 
we should have the same rights as men.

  Evie Wyld

  Men, Thinking, Rights

  "Evie Wyld vs Naomi Wolf". Dazed & Confused head-to-head interview, www.dazeddigital.com. January 22, 2014.

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• The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

  Laurie Penny

  People, Reason, Stills

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• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Names, Racism

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• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Unrequited Love

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• If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

  Lana Del Rey

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Practice, Theory, Lesbianism

  Quoted in Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-OnWoman (1972). This saying, from a 1970 speech, is usually quoted, "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."

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• We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.

  Leslie Jamison

  Girl, Mother, Hurt

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books

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• I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

  Erica Jong

  Feminist, Males, Body

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• Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
  I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Phrases, Spices

  "Caitlin Moran: how to be a Renaissance woman" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

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