Feminism Quotes - Page 22

• Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

  Vandana Shiva

  Kind, Term, Ecological

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

  Betty Dodson

  Hero, Abortion, Lines

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

  Emma Watson

  Inspiring, Hate, Men

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• Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

  Emma Watson

  Inspiring, Simple, Gender Equality

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• If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Inspiring, Giving, Would Be

  "Ginsburg talks gay marriage". www.politico.com. September 16, 2014.

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• In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspiring, Men, World

  "Malala Yousafzai’s Toughest Battle?" by Maria Rioumine and Adnan Rafiq, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2013.

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• I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong Women, Mean, Opportunity

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

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• I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

  Ani DiFranco

  Folks, Folk Music

  MuchMusic Interview, 2003.

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• When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, Individual Strength

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• We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Idiotic, Fellows

  "Hirsi Ali slams feminism's 'trivial BS'" by Ashe Schow, www.washingtonexaminer.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Apology, Doors, Feminist

  Patricia J. Williams (1997). “The Rooster's Egg”

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• I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

  Lorde

  Girl, Reality, Thinking

  "Super Heroine: An Interview With Lorde". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.rookiemag.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Long

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• There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

  Christina Stead

  Mind, Theory, Courses

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.491, Open Road Media

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• What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Age, Albums, Firsts

  "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 think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Interest, Backlash

  "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 more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "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 knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.

  Jane Fonda

  Acting, Way, Talent

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.

  Camille Paglia

  Exercise, Feminist, Taught

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• Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sex, Regret, Men

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• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  Christine Pelosi

  Apology, Color, Talking

  "Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

  Anne Roiphe

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

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• Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

  Neil Strauss

  Powerful, Hate, Guy

  "Pickup artist Neil Strauss". Interview with Clarisse Thorn, www.timeout.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Simple, Stuff, Knows

  "Mia Wasikowska: 'There's a common misconception that the loud kid in the class is the actor'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

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