Feminism Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Cutting, Males

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, p. 10, 1992.

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• before feminism was, Paglia was!

  Camille Paglia

  Self-importance

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Color, Impact

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• Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Radical Feminism, Political

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

  Susan Faludi

  Winning, Simple, Effort

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

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• The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

  Mina Loy

  Feminist, Movement, Inadequate

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• All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

  Isabelle Holland

  Feminist, Knows

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• Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Way, Attacking, One Way

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.

  Annie Lennox

  Voice, Rights, People

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• In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

  Dennis Prager

  Husband, Lying, Father

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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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• 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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• I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at home and take care of children [and debate about hijab]. And there are other women who are saying you are criticizing my decision as a free liberated women to stay home and take care of my children.

  Ari Shapiro

  Children, Home, Decision

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their own way without participating with other people outside of their communities, were all piecemeal reforms. That's what makes a utopian a utopian, this idea that they were going to create a whole new world from scratch.

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Giving Up, Problem, Wells

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  France

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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