Feminism Quotes - Page 17

• The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.

  Donald Symons

  Boys, Men, Found

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• I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Feminism is something I think about more when I watch the film, Christine, rather than when I was actually doing it, to be honest with you. But I do think it functions as a sort of interesting feministic critique, because you are seeing a woman who's resolutely incapable of behaving like the kind of woman that's acceptable at the time. She doesn't know how to play the game by everyone else's rules, and it makes you realize that actually there were rules that were functioning for a woman to be a careerist.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Interesting, Honest

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Political, Conviction, Radical

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.

  Andi Zeisler

  Inequality, Term, Labor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

  Pamela Anderson

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Exclusive: Pamela Anderson On Beauty, "Baywatch," And Feminism". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. April 16, 2013.

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• We're not saying that marriage, the thing, is now open to anyone of any gender. We are saying, when the word marriage is used in this particular context, this is what it means. And it was the same with "alternative facts." That was a big one. "Feminism" was a big one. And when people came to the "marriage" entry, because we live in the Internet age, they either immediately fire off an email to us saying they're horrified at how commie-pinko-liberal we are, or they fire off an e-mail saying thank you so much for speaking truth to power.

  Kory Stamper

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"

  Amanda Palmer

  Jesus, Couple, Real

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not convinced that Trump's administration is a death knell for feminism. I think it could be the kind of kick in the pants that we need in order to come back together and see ourselves in the same fight.

  Sarah Treem

  Fighting, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl raised her hand, and the rest of us just sat there. He basically just shamed us for the rest of the class   -   in a constructive way. He went around the room and said to each girl, "Why didn't you raise your hand? Feminism means men and women deserve the same rights, and that the balance in the world is currently tilted in men's favour.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, College

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

  Lindy West

  Determination, Emotion, Shame

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Activism, Obligation

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

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• As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

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• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

  Camille Paglia

  Block, Moving, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.

  Laura Bates

  Sex, War, Reality

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• When I talk about feminism and what I think the women's movement needs more of, it's not to detract from anything going on - I think everything going on is fantastic - but there's this missing element. I think we could learn from our detractors a little bit because I feel like they have a plan, a better understanding of things than we necessarily do. You can't change things if you don't understand the other people involved. And if you don't understand yourself, you'll never change.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Fighting, Men, Compassion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Human Nature, Grievance

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want, for your own reasons, without being forced or pressured into wearing what's considered societally required because of your sex.

  Laura Bates

  Sex, Believe, Mean

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• I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

  Beth Ditto

  Makeup, College, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  Practice, Realms

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• Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

  Debora Spar

  Opportunity, Expectations, Easy

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• I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and the term "young feminist," and the first thing that came up was a page from the National Organization for Women that was about 10 or 15 years old. And it just struck me as so odd that there was all of this young feminist activism going on, but that it wasn't necessarily being represented online, that the first things in a Google search to come up were really, really old. I think to a certain degree we really filled a gap, and that's why we got such a large readership.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Feminist, Google

  Source: bigthink.com

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